Holy Cross tackles environmental challenges

TOONING WITH JACK HIGGINS ‘76
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SPRING / 2010
Holy Cross
TakingRoot
Holy Cross tackles
environmental challenges
“ It is Ulysses
that approaches
from the east,
the interminable
adventurer?
The trees
are mended.
That winter is
washed away.”
“ The World as Meditation”
Wallace Stevens,
American Modernist poet
1879–1955
Photograph by John Buckingham
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L ov e o n the Hill
Photo by Matt Attanian
In our look back to the earliest days of the
College (“Flashback,” Page 38), we
learned that what is now Holy Cross was
once a fertile farm, and that Tobias
Boland was the generous man who
helped build the first structures on campus. Boland’s great granddaughter, Margaret Boland, and historian Thomas
Rooney have written a novel that is part
family history, part astonishing tale of the
struggles and triumphs of Tobias Boland.
Read an excerpt from their book, The Irish
Pioneer, in this issue’s Web exclusives.
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M A G A Z I N E
As alumnae who fell in love at
Holy Cross, were legally married
in 2004, and are now the proud
moms of twin boys, we were eager
to read the cover story about couples who also found their soul
mates on the Hill. However, we
were disappointed to see that your
article only included heterosexual
couples, all of them white. In this
day and age, when Holy Cross is
seeking to connect with its diverse
alumni on Facebook, Twitter and
YouTube, it seems ironic to portray
such a limited view of love and
family.
Sara Barber-Just ’96
Christina Barber-Just ’97
Leverett, Mass.
K ud os
The inside cover of the winter
2010 edition (the top of St Joseph
Memorial Chapel, photo by John
Buckingham) is absolutely stunning! … Keep up the great work; I
am thrilled with the quality of this
magazine.
Donna LaFontaine, M.D., ’81
Cumberland, R.I.
Editor’s Note: The letters we received this spring showcase the diversity of viewpoints that is a hallmark
of our alumni and parent community. A few readers were upset by a
letter in the Winter 2010 issue that
dissented with Pope Benedict’s stand
on condom use and the HIV/AIDS
crisis in Africa. These readers called
the writer’s opinion into question, but
also our decision (as the caretakers of
a Jesuit institution’s magazine) to
print the letter in the first place.
James Kearns ’58 wrote, for example, “Sadly, it is no longer shocking
to read in a journal of a Catholic institution of higher learning, an attack
on Catholic doctrine or the leadership
of the Church.” Please be assured
that Holy Cross Magazine in no
way meant to insult the Holy Father.
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In Remembrance
Photo by Dan Vaillancourt
involved Web technology, and it became her passion.
The summer before last, Jayne Fox, our brilliant, funny,
She moved over to Public Affairs in 2000, serving as the
irreverent, trusted colleague, stood before hundreds
College’s first webmaster. Jayne advocated for resources
assembled at the University of Massachusetts Medical
and staffing as we undertook a major Web site redesign.
Center in Worcester and talked about what she learned
Jayne
was a mentor to younger people, who responded
in chemo rooms.
to her dedication, talent, love of pop
Jayne was the speaker at a kick-off
culture, and expansive (slightly subbreakfast for the Walk to Cure Cancer,
versive) humor. Her marketing and
a major community fundraiser. She
technology
expertise was respected by
related conversations with the men
her colleagues throughout the higher
and women she met during the seveneducation community. While Jayne’s
year course of her treatment for lymcancer forced her to take medical
phoma. So many times, she said, the
leaves, she was, always, committed to
people in those rooms heard that there
helping Holy Cross pursue excellence
wasn’t much that could be done. But,
and advance its goals.
she told the crowd, “I’m standing here
Her determination in the face of
and there are thousands like me. We are
her
illness was extraordinary. She
the reasons why new research facilities
brought her formidable research skills
and research funding are so vitally
to her own medical care and advocacy,
important.
becoming an expert in treatment
Jayne Fox, P10
“While it might take a village to
options and advising others.
1957-2010
raise a child,” she said, thanking
In the style we use for members of
friends, co-workers and strangers for
the Holy Cross family, Jayne has “P10”
their help in ways big and small, she
appended to her name, identifying her as proud parent
emphasized how hers was never a solitary battle: “It
of Matthew Fox, Class of 2010. We will never forget her
takes a college community and a city to fight cancer.”
standing before the crowd at UMass, and so we stand
When Jayne finished speaking, she was mobbed by
with Matt, with Jayne’s beloved family and many
people who wanted to shake her hand, to hug her, to
friends, and with all those who also know the inside of
share their own stories, to thank her for her courage.
chemo
rooms.
In the midst of that whirlwind, Jayne caught a
glimpse of the breakfast tables. “Pastry and fruit?” she
asked, remarking on what everyone else at the medical
center apparently chose to overlook or ignore. “That’s
no good for low-carb people!”
Our lives have been forever enriched by moments
like that one: An unforgettable narrative punctuated by
Jayne’s characteristic irony and infectious laughter.
We lost Jayne early in January. She had beaten the
Director of Public Affairs and
odds and proved prognoses wrong so many times that
executive editor of Holy Cross Magazine
we were shocked, disbelieving the news. We are still.
Jayne Fox joined the Holy Cross library staff in 1995,
becoming head of reader services in 1998. Her work
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News from the Hill
HOLY CROSS REACHES OUT TO HAITI
College Chaplains
Channel Aid
A
After a 7.0 magnitude earthquake
shook parts of Haiti on Jan. 12, the
Holy Cross community joined the
global response with fundraising
efforts and prayers. The College
Students Mobilize Across
Campus
D
Days after Port au Prince, Haiti, was flattened by an earthquake, Holy Cross students returned to campus from their
winter break and began organizing events to raise money
for Haitian relief. Led by Andrea Pascual ’10 of Fort Myers,
Fla., and Melissa Nelson ’10, of Randolph, Mass., co-chairs
Chaplains’ Office designated collections
of the Student Government Association Co-Presidential
at Masses and Protestant services on Jan.
Task Force for Haiti Relief, more than 100 students attend-
23–25 for Haiti earthquake relief. Along with individual
ed the initial planning meeting. Some shared personal sto-
donations, the Chaplains’ Office also received funds from
ries of grief and concern for friends and family in Haiti.
Blues on the Hill: An Evening of Jazz and Blues with 2120
Others simply expressed a desire to help in any way need-
South Michigan Avenue Featuring Sweet Willie D and Blue
ed. The task force voted to raise money for Yéle Haiti and
Champagne. Donations were taken at the door of the free
International Action.
concert, which had been scheduled in honor of Martin
Luther King Jr. Day and was co-sponsored by Joanna E.
Just a few weeks later, after several fundraising events and
Ziegler, Edward A. O’Rorke Professor in the Liberal Arts
dozens of hours organizing and coordinating campuswide
and professor and chair of the visual arts department, and
efforts, the Task Force announced that Holy Cross students
the Office of Multicultural Education. (Blue Champagne
had raised $9,400 for the Haiti relief effort. A matching
counts two Holy Cross professors among its ranks: reed
donation from College president Rev. Michael C.
man Noel “Dr. Soul” Cary, professor of history, and trom-
McFarland, S.J., brought the total to $18,800. The good
bonist Gareth “Goldfingers” Roberts, associate professor
news went viral—Wyclef Jean, singer and passionate advo-
of mathematics.)
cate for his native Haiti even before the earthquake devas-
More than $4,000 from these efforts went to Jesuit
Refugee Services (JRS), which follows a longstanding mission to bring hope to vulnerable people driven from their
homes by conflict, natural disaster, economic injustice or
violation of their human rights. The JRS distributes funds
through Jesuit programs and parishes staffed by Jesuits in
Haiti, offering food and other lifesaving items.
“The Chaplains’ Office also sponsored an ecumenical
Matt Attanian
prayer service for Haiti in January. Virginia Coakley and I
co-presided at the service in the Mary Chapel,” says
Associate Chaplain and Director of Liturgy Paul Covino.
“Featured were several artistic pieces from Haiti that had
Students, dressed in red and blue to celebrate and show sup-
been lent to us by the Haitian Ministry Office of the
port for Haiti, gathered in Kimball Dining Hall for Haitian
Diocese of Worcester.”
Culture Night. Some wore ribbons (above left), which were
sold to raise funds for earthquake relief.
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Holy Cross Grant To Benefit
Worcester’s Community Programs
Matt Attanian
O
On Jan. 12, U.S. Rep. James McGovern (D-Mass.)
announced that $400,000 of federal funding will be
directed to Holy Cross and six community programs it supports. The much-needed money will benefit organizations
and schools where many Holy Cross students do service
work. These include Boys and Girls Club of Worcester, Girls
CHOICE, Nativity School of Worcester, North High School,
South Worcester Neighborhood Improvement
Corporation (SWNIC) and Youth Effect.
Worcester Mayor Joseph O’Brien, Superintendent of
The student group Off the Record provided some of the
Worcester Public Schools Dr. Melinda Boone and other
musical entertainment for Haitian Culture Night,
honored guests attended the announcement event at
sponsored by the Student Government Association
SWNIC. “I am pleased that we were able to include
Co-Presidential Task Force for Haiti Relief.
$400,000 in the Department of Justice Appropriations Bill
for funding to support and enhance educational achieve-
tation, gave Holy Cross and its students’ fundraising
ment and higher education access programs for
efforts a shout-out via Twitter.
Worcester students through community-based partnerships with the College of the Holy Cross,” McGovern said.
One of the group’s largest events was “Red and Blue
“This is an important initiative, and it deserves federal
Day” on Feb. 2, when students, faculty and staff were
support.”
encouraged to wear the colors of the Haitian flag as a
show of support. Many wore red and blue ribbons that
College President Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J., spoke of
the Caribbean African Student Assemblage (CASA) sold
his deep gratitude for McGovern’s efforts to secure the
for $1 each. The day closed with an evening of Haitian
funds, adding, “So many of us have strong connections to
culture in Kimball Hall, during which students could
Worcester as residents, volunteers and participants in its
donate up to three swipes of their dining cards to the
rich economic, social and cultural life. We want to see the
relief effort.
city flourish; and if it is to do so, it must nourish and
develop the wonderful young people who are its future.”
“Red and Blue Day was a great day that enabled students to show their support for the people of Haiti,”
Nelson says. “And the turnout we received at Kimball
Haitian Culture Night was fantastic. The motto for the
Worcester Telegram and Gazette
evening—This is what we were, help us get back—was
fulfilled, as students were able to learn about the culture
of Haiti. This event allowed Holy Cross students to unite
for a cause, and because they united they were able to
make a impact that will benefit the people of Haiti.”
Note: Here at Holy Cross Magazine, we know many of
our alumni readers have given to the Haitian relief
efforts, and some have participated in emergency action
on the ground. We’d like to hear from you. Please consider sharing your story with the Holy Cross community
by writing to [email protected].
Yachira Torres ’10 (right), a graduate of Worcester’s North
High School and community volunteer, joined U.S. Rep.
James McGovern (D-Mass.) and College President Rev.
Michael C. McFarland, S.J., in addressing the audience at an
event announcing a federal grant to Holy Cross and six
community programs the College supports.
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NEWS FROM THE HILL
B LACK H ISTORY M ONTH C ELEBRATION
ON THE
H ILL
Keynote speech by Marc Lamont Hill and the annual Black and Gold
Fashion Show offered insight and celebration
the effects of self-love and self-hate
within the Black community in a
keynote presentation, titled “Full of
the Hope that the Present Has
Brought Us.” Hill lectures across the
country about hip-hop culture, politics, sexuality, education and religion,
and provides regular commentary for
media outlets, including NPR, The
Washington Post, Essence, and The
New York Times. A political contributor for the Fox News Channel, Hill is
Nick Markantonatos
an associate professor of education
at Teachers College of Columbia
University; he received his Ph.D. from
the University of Pennsylvania.
The Black Student Union sponsored events and presentations across campus in
The BSU also hosted the 12th
February to recognize Black History Month, including this window painting of a
annual Black and Gold Fashion Show,
“Black Mount Rushmore,” featuring Harriet Tubman, Barack Obama, Martin Luther
held at Mechanics Hall in downtown
King, Jr. and Malcolm X.
Worcester. Casual and formal duds
provided by local boutiques took
their turn on the runway, with stu-
T
The College community celebrated
The month kicked off with a
dents stepping up to the fashion
Black History Month with a mixture
“Jeopardy”-style African American
plate as models. Some of the pro-
of events to shine a spotlight on the
Quiz Bowl, the annual Love Forum
ceeds from the event went to the
struggles and contributions of
discussion and a coffee-house style
American Heart Association and the
African Americans. “Black history, as
poetry reading, co-sponsored by the
Haiti relief effort. A dinner, dance
a discourse, is unfortunately taught
Caribbean African Students
performances, a presentation by
as merely parenthetical within the
Assemblage (CASA). The Hogan
Haitian student Wesley Laine ’10 and
larger story of American and world
Campus Center windows were paint-
an after party were all part of the
history,” Black Student Union (BSU)
ed with “Black Mount Rushmore” by
evening’s festivities.
co-chair Tiffany Reid ’10 says. “The
Mary Kate O’Keefe ’11, a visual arts
story is often told as linear—slavery,
studio major with a double minor in
For a behind-the-scenes look at
freedom, Civil Rights and, now,
French and art history. The painting
the Black and Gold Fashion Show,
Obama—but it is more complex, rich
depicted an alternate Mount
and to see all the student models in
with a heritage that can be told in
Rushmore featuring Harriet Tubman;
their finery, visit holycross.edu/
myriad ways.” The BSU, led by Reid
Barack Obama; Martin Luther King,
magazine and see our exclusive
and co-chair Melissa Nelson ’10,
Jr.; and Malcolm X.
Fashion Show photo gallery.
organized events aimed at telling
activist Marc Lamont Hill spoke on
this story.
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On Feb. 25, author and social
M A G A Z I N E
NEWS FROM THE HILL
Cardina l Se á n O ’ M a l l e y V i si ts H o l y C ro s s
Jeff Loughlin
Even a torrential downpour could not extinguish the excitement on campus Jan. 25 when
Cardinal Seán O’Malley, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop
of Boston, visited Holy Cross. After arriving at
O’Kane Hall, Cardinal O’Malley spoke with
members of the Jesuit community, viewed the
portrait of Benedict Joseph Fenwick, S.J., second
bishop of Boston and founder of the College,
and held an informal discussion session with
students in the Cantor Art Gallery. He then celebrated an afternoon Mass, the Celebration of
the Eucharist for the Feast of the Conversion of
Saint Paul, in St. Joseph Memorial Chapel.
Choral and organ selections were provided by
Holy Cross students, and included “Draw Us in
the Spirit’s Tether” and Bach’s “Toccata in C
Major.” Finally, Cardinal O’Malley, joined by students, placed flowers at Bishop Fenwick’s grave.
Rising U pp e rc la s s m en Wa tc h “ U p p e r C a m pu s”
wi th Ne w I n t e re s t
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Work has begun on a 156-bed townhouse-style residence
and donor support. CBT Architects, the same firm that
hall. The new building will be located on the inside loop
designed Williams Hall, is project architect. Fontaine
of McCarthy Lane, uphill from Mulledy Hall—a site select-
Brothers Inc., which oversaw the renovation of Seelos
ed after discussions with students for its proximity to the
Theater, is general contractor.
Hart Center and parking.
At a projected cost of $20 million, the apartments are
scheduled for completion in the summer of 2011. It will
be the 11th residence hall on campus, and the first since
Williams Hall was completed in 2003.
Campus housing has long been a College priority. The
new residence hall will help reduce the number of students in triples and bring off-campus students back to
campus—thus improving neighbor relations in the
College Hill area. Plans to construct the new building
were revisited this winter to take advantage of favorable
costs in the current construction slow-down. The project
CBT Architects
is proceeding without debt financing, financed by surpluses produced by conservative budgeting and the
strength experienced in the past year in both enrollment
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NEWS FROM THE HILL
Trio of Teachers Receive Tenure
I
In February, the College announced the
Sylvia M. Schmitz-Burgard, of the
promotion of three faculty members to
department of modern languages and
the rank of associate professor with
literatures, received her Ph.D. and
tenure.
M.A. from the University of Virginia.
Steven Levandosky ’92, of the depart-
Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
She also attended Rheinische
and Albertus-Magnus-Universität
Köln, both in Germany. A member of
University and his B.A. from Holy Cross,
the Holy Cross faculty since 2003,
where the teaching bug first nibbled
him. “My very first experience in teaching was actually right here at Holy
Cross as a tutor in the calculus work-
John Buckingham
ment of mathematics and computer
science, earned his Ph.D. from Brown
Professor Steven
Levandosky ‘92
Schmitz-Burgard has taught at
Harvard University, Princeton
University, MIT and the University of
Virginia. While at Holy Cross, Schmitz-
shop,” he says. “I really enjoyed shar-
Burgard has represented the depart-
ing my knowledge of mathematics
ment of modern languages and litera-
with my fellow students. I feel so fortu-
tures at the Academic Affairs Council
nate to have been able to return to
and has contributed to the Women
Holy Cross as a (now permanent) mem-
and Gender Studies program, Studies
ber of its faculty.” Levandosky joined
in World Literature, the Center for
Interdisciplinary and Special Studies
the Holy Cross faculty in 1999.
and Montserrat.
Interested in partial differential equaalso taught at Stanford University,
where he received the Harold M.
Bacon Memorial Teaching Award; the
University of Texas at Austin; and
Brown University, where he was named
Professor Sylvia M.
Schmitz-Burgard
The first person in her family to
attend college, Schmitz-Burgard says
she never dreamed of becoming a
professor. But she credits her parents,
who surrounded her with volumes of
poetry, novels and books on art, pho-
an honorable mention for the
tography, history and religion, with
President’s Award for Excellence in
giving her a thirst for knowledge.
Teaching. In 2001, Levandosky pub-
“Growing up, I learned to explore
lished a book, titled Linear Algebra,
ideas, to venture beyond the bound-
and in 2008, with Walter Strauss and
aries of my village and even my coun-
Julie Levandosky, a book, titled Partial
try,” she explains. “And now I enjoy
Differential Equations: An
encouraging students to discover the
Introduction, Student Solutions
things I love: German and Austrian lit-
Manual.
erature, Freud’s theories, legal history,
enjoys competing in local road races,
duathlons and triathlons, and spending
time with his wife and three daughters.
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John Buckingham
Outside the classroom, Levandosky
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John Buckingham
tions and dynamical structures, he has
Professor Karen Teitel
feminism and creative projects.” In
2000, Schmitz-Burgard published a
book on novels by Richardson,
Rousseau and Goethe, titled Das
Schreiben des anderen Geschlechts.
NEWS FROM THE HILL
She has a new book due out this year, titled
Gewaltiges Schreiben gegen Gewalt.
Decorated Poet Speaks at
Holy Cross
Of her non-classroom pursuits, Schmitz-Burgard says
“There is always more to do, but when I tire of sitting at my desk, I enjoy spending time with my husband and daughter, walking our English Cocker
Spaniel, reading, cooking, knitting and puttering in
the garden.”
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Students, faculty and members of the Worcester community filled Rehm Library
last month to hear a reading
by the man described by The
Karen Teitel, of the economics department, earned
Times Literary Supplement as
her Ph.D. and B.B.A. from the University of
“the most significant English-
Massachusetts, Amherst, and her M.S. from Bentley
language poet born since the
College. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since
second World War.” Paul
Muldoon, winner of a slew
of literary prizes, including
Economics in 2007 and 2008, she has served on the
the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for his
Accounting Hiring Committee and the Academic
volume Moy Sand and
Affairs Council. In 2007, Teitel received the Journal
Gravel, spoke as a featured
©Matt Valentine
2004, Teitel is the accounting program coordinator.
Director of the Summer Research Fellows Program in
Paul Muldoon
of International Accounting Research (JIAR)
guest of the Edward Callahan Support Fund for Irish
Outstanding Manuscript Award from the American
Studies and the Creative Writing Program. “He was a
Accounting Association International Accounting
delight, balancing melancholy poems with his more
Section. She has also published manuscripts in the
playful work,” Associate Professor of English Paige
European Accounting Review and the Journal of
Reynolds comments, noting Muldoon’s commitment to
International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation.
giving an engaged reading, which included “Anseo”
and “Symposium.”
Her research and teaching interests include external
financial reporting by business enterprises, prepara-
Words like “dazzling, inventive, and fabulous,” as well
tion of financial statements and disclosures, and
as “difficult and oblique” appear in reviews of
financial reporting policy and regulation. Teitel says
Muldoon’s poetry. But Reynolds says one adjective
one of her most rewarding teaching experiences at
strikes her as particularly relevant: exuberant. “There is
the College has been advising her first economics
a powerful sense of play in much of Muldoon’s work,”
department honors thesis: “It was a great experi-
she says. “You can really sense that he’s a poet who not
ence. I learned so much in the process, and I look
only recognizes the power and beauty of language, but
forward to working on more in the future.”
also embraces its fun … he clearly enjoys his work.”
Asked what makes teaching at Holy Cross especially
Born in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, Muldoon was
gratifying, Teitel points to the camaraderie of the
a Catholic growing up in Protestant Northern Ireland, a
faculty and the close bonds they have with students.
struggle that is sometimes the subject of his poems.
“We all have a common goal of sharing knowledge
Muldoon was educated in Armagh and at the Queen’s
with our students,” she says.
University of Belfast. Since 1987 he has lived in the
United States, where he is now Howard G. B. Clark ’21
Like fellow tenure recipient Levandosky, Teitel is a
Professor at Princeton University and Chair of the Peter
runner. “I enjoy being outside breathing fresh air
B. Lewis Center for the Arts.
regardless of the season,” she says.
Muldoon’s newest work, Maggot, comes out this year.
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NEWS FROM THE HILL
Big Win for Moot Court
F
For the second time in three
years, the top competitor at the
American Collegiate Moot Court
Association (ACMA) national tournament was a Crusader. Katherine
Andrew ’11 finished first out of
128 students competing from 21
colleges and universities; this
year’s tournament was held at
Florida International University
College of Law in Miami. During
the three preliminary rounds
Andrew averaged 393 points out
of a possible 400, the highest average in ACMA history. The entire
Scott Sandstrom
Holy Cross team fared very well in
the competition. At the awards
ceremony, the team posed for a
photo with their coach, John M.
O’Donnell ’04 (kneeling). The stu-
Erin Barrett ’10, Elizabeth Conway
Katelyn Henmueller ’12 and Mark
dents are, from left to right: Tim
’10, Molly Delaney ’10, Cara Howe
Weyland ’12. (Not pictured:
Whooley ’11, Robert LiCalzi ’12,
’10, Katherine Andrew ’11,
Christina Pashou ’12).
It’s Open!
Dan Vaillancourt
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M A G A Z I N E
With the opening of a completely renovated Haberlin Hall, the $63 million
state-of-the-art integrated science
complex is full and officially open.
Haberlin now houses chemistry,
physics and some of the mathematics
and computer science departments.
The Park B. and Linda Smith Laboratories, a four-story building that links
Haberlin and existing science and social science buildings (Beaven, O’Neil
and Swords halls), was completed last
year. Construction of the complex—
the most ambitious building project in
the College’s history—started in
spring 2007. It was completed on
schedule and on budget. Alumni, parents, friends and local foundations
gave more than $20 million to support
the project. Take a tour of the new
space by visiting http://academics.
holycross.edu/celebratingscience.
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When a biology major finds herself absolutely
parched in her lab, or a psych professor has skipped
breakfast, what are they to do? Now they can just
take a few strides to the new Science Center Café in
the Integrated Science Complex and find sustenance.
The Science Café (and yes, a jazzier name is in the
works) has garnered plenty of a.m. fans with offerings such as the Breakfast Bialy, French toast bagel
(with syrup for dipping), fresh-pressed orange juice
and a yogurt parfait that features homemade granola and fresh strawberries. When lunch hour rolls
around, the sandwiches made with Indian naan
bread are a big hit (our fave: the chicken with roasted tomato pesto). Nonna’s Beef Escarole Soup is a
recipe from Director of Dining Services Linda
Nardella’s very own grandmother’s kitchen. And
even Nardella, who admits to not having much of a
sweet tooth, has pledged her devotion to the ooeygooey Mississippi Mud Bar dessert. If that doesn’t
tempt you to stop in the next time you’re on campus, we don’t know what will!
Holy Cross in the News
NEWS FROM THE HILL
A sampling of Holy Cross
appearances in local and national
media outlets
Purple Pride Runs High
In a feature in The Chronicle of Higher Education,
Holy Cross was used as the leading example of a small
number of schools that can boast an alumni giving
rate of over 50 percent. “That figure far exceeds the
national average alumni-participation rate of 10 percent,” the writer explained, “and is one of the highest rates of alumni giving for colleges that report the
figures.” The story, titled “5 Colleges That Inspire
Alumni Giving, and How They Do It,” spotlighted
College President Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J.’s,
outreach to young alumni and Holy Cross’ efforts to
connect with alumni and share how donations are
being used to further the College’s mission. View the
article online at holycross.edu/hcm/alumnigiving/
Eco-Chic Weddings
Associate Chaplain and Director of Liturgy Paul
Covino discussed ideas for engaged couples who
want an environmentally friendly wedding ceremony
in a Feb. 24 Catholic News Service story. Editor of
Squashing Hate
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“Celebrating Marriage: Preparing the Roman
Catholic Wedding Liturgy,” Covino noted that many
Thanh Nguyen ’10 of Portland, Maine, is the winner
couples are opting for charity registries instead of
of the Fourth Annual Hate: Not Here! poster con-
traditional household gift registries, and some
test. His artwork features a mixture of graphic ele-
include a request for guests to bring nonperishable
ments, illustration and positive phrases that pro-
food donations for a local food pantry. He states that
mote the Hate: Not Here! message that “tolerance is
this is not only eco-friendly but a way to “express the
not enough.”
care for the needy that a Christian couple is called to
The poster is fea-
reflect in marriage.”
tured on the
Hate: Not Here!
Students’ Allergies Addressed
2010 Poster cal-
With the rising number of students arriving to college
endar, along
campuses with concerns about their food allergies,
with five other
Holy Cross was singled out in a Feb. 16 Inside Higher
contest entries,
Ed story that also ran in USA Today as one of the
which will be dis-
schools taking forward-thinking steps to accommo-
tributed to the
date them. The College has opened an allergy-free
campus and
kitchen for students. “It’s a happier, safe zone
Worcester com-
because students don’t have to be afraid of cross-con-
munities through
tamination,” Christina Guittar, Kimball Dining Hall’s
the Office of
manager, says in the story. About 100 students at
Student Affairs.
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Holy Cross in the News
NEWS FROM THE HILL
Holy Cross have food allergies, and in addition to
using the new kitchen, they can pre-order allergyfree meals via e-mail. Kimball Dining Hall Head Chef
Tim Trachimowicz ‘99 says that as his team has
received positive feedback from students, their zeal
for preparing fresh meals as needed has simply
grown, and now the service is viewed as a unique
MEDIA DARLINGS
H
Hosted by the Office of Public Affairs, the Second
Annual Headliners Celebration recognized Holy Cross
faculty, staff and administrators who gave their time
and expertise to represent Holy Cross in the media in
2009. Efforts to create a national presence via print,
and important offering. New England Cable News
radio, television and online media rely on the contribu-
(NECN) also featured Holy Cross’ plan in a “Health
tions of all members of the College community, and
Check” segment that aired Feb. 17.
the Headliners Celebration is an evening dedicated to
thanking those folks who have gone above and
Olympic Dreams
beyond to help bolster Holy Cross’ media presence.
Several media outlets highlighted Holy Cross connections to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Victor Matheson, associate professor of economics,
often discusses the economic impact of major sporting events on communities. In a New York Times
opinion piece, he discussed the negative impact
Vancouver’s “scramble for snow” might have, noting
that it could hurt the city’s desire to attract ski vacationers in the future. The Canadian Free Press,
American Public Media’s “Marketplace” and The
Atlantic also interviewed Matheson about the
Olympic effect on host cities.
Iconic figure skating coach Frank Carroll ’60
trained Evan Lysacek to Olympic gold and squired
young Mirai Nagasu to a stellar fourth-place finish in
women’s figure skating at the Vancouver games.
Interviews with Carroll, whose childhood passion for
skating the frozen ponds of Worcester grew as he
attended the College and became a competitive athlete on the men’s singles circuit, appeared in The
Vice President for Administration and Finance Michael
Washington Post and the Worcester Telegram and
Lochhead and Assistant Professor of political science
Gazette.
Daniel Klinghard won the Newsmaker Award, which
recognizes individuals who have demonstrated
Phrase for Thought
increasing excellence in, and dedication to, media rela-
In an Associated Press article that ran in over 400 out-
tions.
lets nationwide, Alison Bryant Ludden, associate pro-
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fessor of psychology, shed light on a debate brewing
The Holy Cross Headliner Award is presented to indi-
in Washington over whether “disadvantaged” and
viduals who have significantly advanced the image
“at-risk” (terms used to describe children living below
and reputation of the College through their contribu-
the poverty level) have a negative impact on the chil-
tions to national print, radio and television media out-
dren. Ludden discussed research on labels and stereo-
lets. Director of dining services Linda Nardella and
types of gender and race, noting that negative label-
Assistant Director Marty Dudek accepted the Headliner
ing does have an effect on children’s performance.
Award on behalf of Dining Services, which catered the
However, she also explained that the impact of “real
event to rave reviews (attendees seemed entranced by
help for kids” is more important than labels. “What
the potato pancakes). A second Headliner Award was
matters is the time that we invest in them and the
given to Associate Professor of economics Victor
support that we provide for their success,” she says.
Matheson.
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Calendar of Events
March
27
Holy Cross Cares Day
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Lecture by U.S. Rep. James McGovern, about his experiences involving the Nov. 16, 1989 assassination of the six Jesuits
and two laywomen in El Salvador 20 years later. Rehm Library, 4:30 PM
ONGOING -
The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery presents: Pilgrimage and Faith: Buddhism, Christianity, Islam
For more information, visit holycross.edu/cantorartgallery
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April
6
Lecture: “Political Belief and Political Reconciliation: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Problem of the Taliban,” by Paula
Newberg of Georgetown University. Rehm Library, 4:30 PM
7
Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion & Modernity: “Understanding the Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging
Adults in America,” by Christian Smith, director of the National Study of Youth and Religion. Rehm Library, 7:30 PM
8
Lecture: “The Place of Revelation in Christian-Muslim Dialogue,” by Mahmoud Ayoub of Hartford Seminary. Rehm
Library, 4:30 PM
12
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science presents: Dedication of the McBrien Student Common Room, in
memory of longtime Holy Cross mathematics professor Vincent O. McBrien. Swords Hall, Room 307, 4 PM
17th Annual Leonard C. Sulski Memorial Lecture in Mathematics: “Musical, Physical and Mathematical Intervals—how
fretting a guitar is more complicated (and more simple) than one might think,” by Henry P. “Rick” Miranda ’74, of Colorado
State University. Smith Labs, Room 154, 5 PM
12
Lecture: “Women in Afghanistan, from the Taliban until Today,” by Patricia Omidian of Aga Khan University in Pakistan.
Rehm Library, 4:30 PM
12
Panel discussion on the origins, chronology and scope of the Rwandan genocide, led by Rev. Romain Rurangirwa, a
survivor of the genocide. Rehm Library, 7:30 PM
15-17
Holy Cross Theatre Department presents: Phoolan Devi, a multimedia opera, by music professor, Shirish Korde, and
theatre professor, Lynn Kremer. Fenwick Theatre, 8 PM
For more information visit academics.holycross.edu/theatre/currentseason
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Admissions Accepted Student Open House
21-24
10th Annual Student Academic Conference, sponsored by the Office of the Dean
22-
The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery presents: Senior Concentration Seminar Exhibition
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Spring Dance Concert: A program of classical and modern repertory pieces and original choreography performed by Holy
Cross students. Fenwick Theatre, 7 & 9 PM
30
Concert: Gamelan Gita Sari. Brooks Concert Hall, 8 PM
May
7
Sanctae Crucis Awards Dinner
8-15
Final Examinations
15
Alumni/ae Colloquium: “Vision for the Church: Celebrating Chaplains’ Office director Kim McElaney’s 25 Years of Ministry at Holy Cross”
For more information, contact the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture at [email protected]
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Baccaulaureate Exercises
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Commencement
For more news and up-to-date information about upcoming events, visit holycross.edu
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For the Love of
the
Earth
With Jesuit spirit under its wings,
the entire Holy Cross community commits
to a serious plan of environmental progress
B Y
J E F F
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h e m o m e n t that Holy Cross president, Rev. Michael
C. McFarland, S.J., signed his name to the American
College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment
(ACUPCC), business as usual became a thing of the past
at the College of the Holy Cross. This is not to suggest,
however, that the president’s 2007 agreement to reduce dramatically
the College’s emissions that accelerate global warming was the birth of
a green movement on the Hill. There’d been a recycling program on
campus since the early 1990s and a composting system for at least as
long. Fr. McFarland had established the Presidential Task Force on the
Environment, a collegewide body, co-chaired by Katherine Kiel, associate professor of economics, and Scott Merrill, director of physical
plant. And the student organization Eco-Action even had screened Al
Gore’s dire documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
Holy Cross’ decision to join the network of colleges and universities
of the ACUPCC—now totaling more than 650 institutions—was
more than a symbolic act. With one stroke of a pen came a daunting
commitment to conduct biennial greenhouse gas audits, create a carbon-neutral plan with specific targets and a timeline for reaching
them, and, in a befittingly no-time-to-waste spirit, immediately select
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ILLUSTR ATIONS B Y HAR RY CAMPBELL
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“ The Earth is what we all
have in common.”
— Wendell Barry
A Green
Timeline
and implement two “tangible early actions.” Talk about aspiration. Talk about
inspiration. The Presidential Task Force on the Environment, which to this
point had been loosely charged with assessing environmental issues on campus, now had a definitive responsibility. And the clock was ticking.
Fortunately, the College had a head start. Earlier in the year the physical
plant department had contracted for at least 30 percent of Holy Cross’ power
to be hydroelectric, a renewable resource. The summer before, campus police
had added electric vehicles to the fleet. And, even as the ink of Fr.
McFarland’s signature was drying, an ambitious construction project was
under way to gut and renovate Haberlin Hall and connect the science and
social science buildings, Beaven, O’Neil and Swords halls, with the new
Smith Laboratories. What’s so eco about that? “These are the buildings where
we teach environmental studies,” says John F. Cannon, associate director of
physical plant/planning and operations and a task force member, “so we
decided early in the planning process to go LEED.” For the acronym unaware,
that’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, a building rating system that awards points for environmentally sustainable features.
“It was great to have such a visible green project ongoing,” says task force
co-chair Katherine Kiel, “because we knew that the way for us to succeed was
to get everyone on the campus excited and involved. We have to work
together—administration, faculty, students, buildings and grounds, everyone.” Some might scoff at that idea, with academia’s reputation for stunting
communication and creativity with hierarchical boundaries. But Holy Cross
doesn’t fit the stereotype. At task force meetings, for example, “we just sit
around a table and talk,” Cannon says. “We exchange ideas.” The resulting
progress shows.
The task force hosted a town meeting on the environment last fall in
Seelos Theater, which was open to all members of the College community. Speakers discussed the carbon neutral plan, current energy-savings
initiatives, waste minimization, recycling and ways for the community
1739: Benjamin Franklin and
neighbors petition the
Pennsylvania Assembly to stop
waste dumping and remove tanneries from Philadelphia’s commercial district.
1843: College of
the Holy Cross is
founded.
April 28, 1800: English paper16
maker Matthias Koops applies for
the first patent for paper recycling.
1877: Jesuit priest and poet
Gerard Manly Hopkins writes
“God’s Grandeur,” which decries
the damage of the industrial revolution but says, with hope, “And,
for all this, nature is never spent.”
August 9, 1854:
Publication of Walden by
Henry David Thoreau
June 21, 1905: Theodore
Roosevelt, considered the
nation’s first conservation
president, delivers the Holy
Cross Commencement speech
and plants a Scotch elm that
still stands, near the
baseball field.
May 28, 1892: John Muir
founds the Sierra Club.
to assist the College in realizing its goals.
When the ACUPCC’s September deadline arrived for submission of carbon neutral plans, Holy Cross was among just a small number of institutions
to meet it—more than 75 percent of the 480 colleges that initially signed the
climate commitment either asked for extensions or did not comply. The
College’s plan set two targets: a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse emissions
by 2015 and carbon neutrality between 2030 and 2040. The requisite two
immediate steps: pledges that all future construction will meet the equivalent
of LEED silver specifications, and that new appliances will bear the
Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star rating. Before all this was
announced, however, Holy Cross already had made progress toward the 2015
goal, replacing underground steam pipes with better-insulated ones and
changing to LED lighting in Swords Library, the parking garage, ice rink, basketball court and Fieldhouse, among other steps. “We’ve reached 7.4 percent
of our goal,” Cannon says, “by doing nothing earth-shattering.”
Actually, one green initiative did shake up a large segment of the campus,
if not the planet itself. Last March, Kimball Dining Hall eliminated trays to
encourage diners to take only what they will eat.
The students were not pleased. “For some kids, it was as if they’d had their
most sacred human right violated,” says Maria de la Motte ’10, who, as co-chair
of Eco-Action, is one of two students on the president’s task force representing
the student-run environmental group. After a few weeks, things settled down.
“Maybe, with practice, the students learned to balance more food on
their plates,” says Marty Dudek, assistant director, production and planning,
dining services. “But clearly they’re not piling on too much, if you look at
the numbers.”
The six-month scorecard: reductions by 41,122 pounds in food waste,
5,874 gallons in liquid waste and 234,987 gallons in water usage. That last
number, which reflects what it would have taken to wash trays for 2,000 diners three times a day, does not include the energy savings from not having to
heat as much water.
Dining Services is also a central figure in an even more attention-grabbing
“ Those who dwell among
the beauties and mysteries
of the Earth are never
alone or weary of life.”
— Rachel Carson
September 1962:
Publication of Silent
Spring by Rachel Carson
December 2, 1970:
President Richard Nixon
creates the Environmental
Protection Agency.
1971: The Regional
Environmental
Council of Central
Mass. is founded in
Worcester.
1990: First Earth Day celebration at
April 1989: The first
Earth Day cleanup is held
in Worcester.
Holy Cross; students organize “Green
Earth Restoration Project” and a
recycling program on campus.
January 1, 1990: Pope John
April 22, 1970:
1977: Holy Cross is recognized as having
The first Earth Day
celebration in the U.S.
the best-maintained school or university
grounds in the U.S. by the Professional
Grounds Management Society.
Paul II issues The Ecological Crisis:
A Common Responsibility for the
celebration of a World Day
of Peace.
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“ We do not inherit
the Earth from our
ancestors, we borrow it
from our children.”
— Native American proverb
campus development: the $63 million Integrated Science Complex, which
opened in January. By connecting the science and social science buildings,
the project gives a bricks-and-mortar connection to a longstanding philosophical link at Holy Cross, most evident in the Environmental Studies
Program. (“Note that it’s ‘environmental studies,’ not ‘environmental science,’” says Associate Professor of mathematics Catherine Roberts, a former
director of the interdisciplinary program. “Some of the most interesting courses are in the humanities.”) The building project’s most consequential green
feature is an energy recovery wheel that captures and reuses heat and humidity from the air exhaust system. No less conspicuous, however, is the Science
Center Café, located in an atrium under skylights and amid other glass features that make the most of natural light. Food items selected from the largely
healthy menu are served on reusable plates and bowls—and drinks most definitely do not come in plastic bottles. “If people buy things with less packaging, that’s what manufacturers are going to sell,” Dudek says. “It’s the choices
people make that are going to change the world.”
Dollars and cents inevitably blur the purity of intention. Eco-Action students were frustrated, for example, when the recycling bins they had been lobbying for finally appeared in Hogan Campus Center last winter, says de la
Motte, “and they were freebies that advertise Coca-Cola, a company we’ve
been trying to drive off campus because of human rights concerns.” (Generic
replacement bins are now on their way.) And, after students in one of
Roberts’ math classes suggested Holy Cross generate wind power on campus,
there was disappointment when a yearlong feasibility study was unconvincing. “It wouldn’t pay for itself even after 30 years,” says Cannon while Roberts
sees the economics differently: “I think the value of having a wind turbine on
campus goes beyond the power it generates. It would be a very visible symbol
of what we’re trying to do at Holy Cross.”
Economics are at the very root of Holy Cross’ environmental mission.
“Because the less privileged in our society are the most affected by environmental degradation, the Jesuit calling to work for justice is intertwined with
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1995: The Environmental
Studies Program begins as a
major/minor offering within
the Center for Interdisciplinary
and Special Studies.
2000: The Environmental Studies
Program is approved by the faculty to
be a Center for Interdisciplinary and
Special Studies concentration.
2003: The Student Life Council
votes to ask College President
Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J.,
to establish a greening committee on campus.
2005: Building services
begins using eco-friendly
cleaning materials.
September 2002:
March 1995: The 34th General Congregation
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of the Society of Jesus issues the first Jesuit
decree on ecology, recommending a study of
environmental issues and courses of action.
Campus dining services
switches to trans fat-free
oil in all foods.
March 2005: City Council’s “20 by 2010”
Clean Energy Resolution makes Worcester
the largest city in the country (at the time)
to pledge to acquire 20 percent of its municipal energy from renewable sources by 2010.
In the Classroom
S i n c e 1997, when a grant from the 3M
Foundation’s Vision Program planted the seedling of
Holy Cross’ Environmental Studies program, students
have been able to select a course of study that addresses the growing concern about the planet’s health and
the myriad ways we can work to preserve it. In the
beginning, the College offered an Environmental
Studies minor, which converted to a concentration in
2003. Now, students can also earn an Environmental
Studies major through the Center for Interdisciplinary
and Special Studies (CISS).
“The major and concentration have evolved over
the years, but they have become much more popular
among the student body,” says Loren Cass, associate
professor of political science and director of the
Environmental Studies program. “Our first class of students graduated in 2000 with eight minors and one
major. The class of 2001 had 12 minors and three
majors.” Currently, there are 21 environmental studies majors across all four classes (with several more
proposals pending) and 35 concentrators.
One of the notable strengths of the program is its
ability to draw on multiple disciplines to give students
a classroom experience with serious depth—a key
ingredient for starting a career in the growing field of
eco-business or research. “We have a very strong core
of faculty with members offering environmental studies courses in biology, chemistry, economics, history,
mathematics, philosophy, physics, political science,
religious studies as well as sociology and anthropology,” Cass explains. Students are expected to study the
causes, mechanisms and effects of environmental
problems by investigating the interplay between natural processes and human civilizations.
The program leaders also encourage students to
take advantage of the College’s study abroad programs, especially through the School for Field
Studies. It offers programs in ecology and resource
management in the Caribbean, British Columbia,
Costa Rica, Kenya and Australia. Another choice is
the Sea Semester, which immerses students in
oceanography, maritime studies and nautical science
research while they experience life aboard a traditional sailing ship.
January 2008: The Jesuits’
January 31 and
February 1, 2007:
2007: Holy Cross
switches to an electricity
supplier that uses a large
percentage of carbon
neutral resources, primarily hydroelectric power.
The student organization EcoAction hosts screenings of the
Al Gore documentary An
Inconvenient Truth as part of
a campuswide Climate Week of
Action.
September 15, 2007:
Fr. McFarland signs the American
College & University Presidents
Climate Commitment, under
which the College agrees to be
carbon neutral by 2040.
35th General Congregation
pledges “to show ever more
effective ecological solidarity”
and “move beyond doubts and
indifference to take responsibility for our home, the earth.”
October 2007: Holy Cross hosts a
Summer 2006:
Campus public safety
officers begin using
battery-operated
vehicles.
September 2007: The sustainable
alternative transportation program
Zipcar is introduced on campus
with two cars available for hourly
rental, one a hybrid.
slow-food gala to benefit the Regional
Environmental Council of Central
Mass. urban gardens for youth program.
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Green Glossary
The eco-movement has created buzz, new business
and a whole new vocabulary. Here are some of the
terms commonly used by environmental activists.
Hybrid car: A vehicle that runs alternately on a tra-
Clean energy: Energy that isn’t derived from tradi-
LEED: Acronym for “Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design,” a green-building certification program developed by the U.S. Green Building
Council. There are four certification levels for new
construction: certified, silver, gold and platinum.
tional, nonrenewable resources such as coal, oil and
natural gas.
Biodiesel: Fuel for diesel engines made from veg-
etable oil.
Carbon footprint: The total amount of carbon dioxide and other gases that a product or business produces.
These emissions contribute to the degradation of the
Earth’s atmosphere, which causes global warming.
Carbon neutral: Describes an entity that does not
release extra carbon dioxide into the air, either by
reducing emissions to zero or offsetting the CO2 with
actions such as planting trees.
E-waste: Trash made of obsolete computers and
ditional internal combustion engine and an electric
motor.
Locavore: A person who eats mostly locally grown
foods.
Off-gas: The evaporation of toxic and/or volatile
chemicals from a material’s surface.
Off grid/off the grid: A self-sufficient lifestyle that
does not rely on public utilities such as natural gas or
the electrical power grid.
Slow food: Founded by Italian Carlo Petrini in 1986
other electronic equipment. Particularly harmful
because they contain beryllium, cadmium and lead,
which are all hazardous to health and environment.
as a protest against fast food, this is a movement
among chefs, home cooks and restaurateurs to cook
with local, seasonal food. It also emphasizes enjoying
the meal with guests.
Energy Star: A federal program which rates appliances and electronics based on strict energy-efficient
guidelines.
Vampire power: Power drawn by appliances and
electronics even when they’re switched off (but still
plugged in). Also known as “phantom power.”
March 2009: Kimball
May 2008: A year-
long wind power feasibility study begins with
the installation of a
265-foot tower.
Fall 2008: The Student
Government Association
adds a new cabinet position, director of environmental concerns.
September 15, 2008:
Holy Cross submits its
greenhouse gas inventory,
a first step in the carbon
neutrality commitment.
Dining Hall goes trayless. (Later in March
2009: No reports of
students starving to
death, and the world
has not ended.)
February 27, 2009:
Fifteen Eco-Action members attend the climate
change policy youth summit Power Shift 2009 in
Washington, D.C.
Spring 2009: A 4,000September 2008: Dining services, which
July 7, 2008: An E-Waste Collection Day
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on campus safely disposes of 150,000 pounds
of computers, TVs and other electronics.
already had been having used cooking oil taken
away for reuse, contracts with a company that
guarantees to use it in biodiesel.
square-foot community
garden is established next
to the Hart Center and the
football practice field.
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ecology,” says Holy Cross associate chaplain, Rev. James Hayes, S.J., ’72. One
eco-effort on campus that has embodied these Jesuit values is the student-run
Trash or Treasure drive. Eco-Action orchestrated the program last year during
end-of-school move out, collecting unwanted furniture, clothing and other
items from the residence halls for redistribution to community members in
need. Students filled two large Salvation Army trucks plus several smaller
trucks from Worcester social service organizations. “It felt great to help so
many people,” says de la Motte. “At the same time, it was disturbing that students have so much that we don’t really need.”
Kristine Cyr-Goodwin, associate dean for student life, sees the abundance
of such tangentially related green activism on the Hill as a positive, especially
where it involves students. “When things bubble up simultaneously, it validates that we’re heading in the right direction,” she says. “Some people would
say that’s disorganized. I don’t think so. I think it means that our work ahead
is not in getting people to buy into environmental concerns, but rather in
orchestrating existing buy-ins.”
Since joining the ACUPCC effort in 2007, Holy Cross has made significant strides in addressing its immediate and long-term goals, energizing the
College community to embrace this effort, with the greater good of the community and the environment as a priority. Once again the Jesuit mission to
serve others is evident. As Fr. McFarland told an audience of students, faculty
and community members at a town hall meeting last fall: “When we talk
about protecting the environment, it’s not just motivated by this mystical
love of nature or reverence for the planet—all of which is important. It really
is about being able to sustain civilization and provide a quality of life and survivability for our people.”
“ If nature is not violated
and humiliated, it returns to being the sister
of humanity.”
— Pope John Paul II
Jeff Wagenheim is an award-winning writer living in Northampton, Mass. While
working on this story, he and his preschooler sat down with her paint set so they
could see what happens when you combine purple and green. It was beautiful.
Summer 2009: The
September 15, 2009: Holy Cross
SGA establishes an
environmental liaison
in every residence
hall; Kimball Dining
Hall eliminates all use
of styrofoam.
submits its Greenhouse Gas
Reduction Plan, outlining how the
College will achieve a 20 percent
reduction by 2015 and carbon neutrality by 2040.
March 2010: Construction
begins on a LEED silverequivalent residence hall.
January 20, 2010:
May 5-9, 2009:
Eco-Action sponsors Trash or
Treasure, which redirects unwanted items to Worcester-area organizations during dorm move-out.
October 22, 2009: Fr. McFarland
and the Environmental Task Force
hold a town meeting on the carbon
neutral plan.
The Integrated Science
Complex opens, with the
College seeking LEED
silver certification.
2040: Holy Cross
has pledged to be
carbon neutral.
2015: Holy Cross has
pledged to have reduced
its carbon emissions by
20 percent.
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C h icago
Son
Windy City native Jack Higgins ’76 found
the path to his dreams on Mount St. James
BY SUZANNE MORRISSEY
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Photo by Janet Mesic Mackie
hen political cartoonist Jack Higgins ’76 ambles down the
stairs into The Billy Goat Tavern on Michigan Avenue for his
Holy Cross Magazine interview, it’s not the blast of near-zero winter air that comes in with him that turns every head in Chicago’s
most famous greasy spoon. It is Higgins’ robust greetings to the assembled crew
and patrons clustered around worn, Formica-topped tables. Higgins is welcomed
as a favorite son, a longtime regular and an evangelist for the Tavern’s short
menu and long history. In fact, he is all three.
After fist-pumping handshakes with the silver-haired bartender, mustachioed
counter guys and a late-lunching group of newspaper reporters, Higgins drops his
parka on a chair and settles in to talk about his life and his new book, My Kind of
’Toon Chicago Is (Northwestern University
Press, 2009). The book, with a forward by
Roger Ebert, is a compendium of more than
250 of the artist’s favorite panels. They cover
sports, culture and celebrities, but the meat on
this deep-dish pizza is politics. City, state,
national and global—the political world is
Higgins’ domain. He did, afterall, enjoy a family-centered, faith-soaked childhood on the
South Side of the city in what became the
Political cartoonist Jack Higgins ’76 keeps the touchstones of his life close at hand in his home studio: Drawings from his
five children, his Pulitzer Prize and a photo of his father in his police commander’s uniform. Higgins says he works best in
the early morning solitude, though sometimes the kids’ ruckus makes its way to the artist’s perch atop the garage. “But it
has to go down a hall, and up a stairwell and around a corner and through a door,” he says, chuckling.
“This one I drew on the air on election night 2008 for the Chicago NBC affiliate,” Higgins says. “Lotsa fun with the crowd
gathered in Grant Park to celebrate the historic moment. I drew a parallel to the crowd that gathered there in 1968 chanting, The world is watching! as rioting erupted during the Democratic National Convention.”
18th Ward, an election-day hot zone. Higgins got his first
taste of Chicago politics as a grade schooler, handing
palm cards to voters outside the polling stations and getting paid in ice cream from the precinct captain.
Back at the Billy Goat, Higgins spins tales that read
like movie plot points: His grandfather’s work as chief of
detectives in charge of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
investigation … the fact that he was “yanked into this
world” by the same hands that delivered longtime
Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley … the day his first
grade art teacher, Mrs. McGrogan, gave a smitten Jack a
peck on the cheek for his drawing skills, but a strict nun
punished him for the same, assuming that the artistically
talented boy was trying to pass off the teacher’s work as
his own … the real love that felled him when he met his
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wife, Missy, at (where else?) an election night event. As
he weaves his stories together, Holy Cross begins to pepper
the conversation.
Arriving in Worcester in 1972, Higgins took advantage of all Holy Cross offered: serious study and serious
fun. “I made friends at Holy Cross that have lasted a lifetime, even if you go without seeing each other for years,”
he says. After his first year on the Hill, Higgins took
advice from oldest brother Mike ’69, and declared an economics major. (Brother Bill ’71 and sister Patty Crowley
’78 are also alumni—Bill received his master’s degree in
chemistry from the College in 1974). “There was something about sitting in those classes,” he says. “It mesmerized me. I loved the logic of it. But what put it over the
top for me were the teachers.”
His professors’ names—John
F. O’Connell ’64, Edwin M.
Kloc Jr. and Frank Petrella Jr.—
bring the grin back to Higgins’
face, not that it ever leaves for
very long. “All three professors
were very approachable,” he
recalls. “None of them ever gave
the impression that you were
interfering with their time.
They’d want to talk to you—
they’d want to listen.”
While pursuing his economics studies, Higgins nurtured his
love of art. He doodled a not-somemorable cartoon for The
Crusader, but took great pride in
his drawings for The Purple
Patcher. Working on the fine
arts committee in his third year,
Higgins was dispatched to
Boston to pick up the cartoons
for a Hogan Campus Center
exhibit by two-time Pulitzer
When mentor Paul Szep, the cartoonist at The Boston Globe, thought Higgins was ready, he
Prize-winning Boston Globe
introduced him to the editor of the Boston Herald American, where Higgins dazzled in his
political cartoonist, Paul Szep.
first professional assignment: drawing cartoons at the 1980 Democratic National Convention.
What he saw stopped Higgins in
his tracks. “His caricatures were
merciless. He did not just afflict
the comfortable, fat-cat pols with biting satire, but through caricature
he put their heads on a pike for all to see,” he recalls, adding, “It was
James Michael Curley’s good fortune that he died before Szep arrived in
Boston.”
Higgins and Szep began a lifelong friendship that day, and the
younger cartoonist continued to take art courses along with economics.
In his final year, Higgins produced one of his favorite creations, which
was, oddly, painted on a bed sheet.
“My friend and classmate Tom Ryan showed up at my room with a
large cartoon drawing he had borrowed from Fr. Hart. It originally ran
on Page 1 of a now-defunct Boston newspaper the day after underdog
Holy Cross upset top-ranked Boston College at Fenway Park 55-12 in
1942,” Higgins recounts. “Nearly 70 years later, it is still ranked as one of
the greatest upsets in sporting history.” (It was also the game that caused
BC to cancel its victory party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, which
burned down that night, killing almost 500.)
Higgins’ self-caricature calls to mind his own
“It was a picture of a Holy Cross football player in tattered uniform,”
words from the preface of his book: “I’ve yet to
Higgins recalls, “proudly holding a banner and staff emblazoned with
find a politician who can wash out India ink.”
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The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 and the acts of bravery that followed were fodder for many editorial cartoonists.
Higgins’ take on the tragedy exemplifies the raw emotional power of a single, almost wordless, pane.
Ryan and Higgins set about recreating the image on a
bed sheet that they would then wave at the next day’s BC
game. Higgins sketched it out in pencil, and the duo
worked into the night painting in the color. “We did this
on the middle of the hallway floor on Beaven 1. I believe
most people were gone for Thanksgiving. I drew the player large, close to six feet tall, and prayed the ink would
hold out.”
It didn’t. With no art stores open, Higgins and Ryan
opted to stretch their paint with good old-fashioned spit.
The next afternoon, Holy Cross and BC went into halftime knotted at 10. “Tom, clad in an old-time raccoon
coat and a Greek fishing cap, grabbed the sheet and said,
‘Let’s go!’ We ran down the steps and jumped over the
fence separating the stands from the players bench, stood
on the last row of the bench and held up our banner,”
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Higgins says. “People stood up to look and then they
began to cheer. It grew louder and louder until everyone
in eyesight was up and cheering. It is both the first and
the last time I ever got applause for a drawing!” (Sadly,
despite the cheering crowd, the Crusaders lost that day,
24-10.)
When the time came to make post-commencement
plans, Higgins set a course for business school. But his
trio of econ mentors—O’Connell, Kloc and Petrella—
along with Rev. Joseph LaBran, S.J., ’38, helped him
choose an artist’s life instead. The men happily wrote recommendations for Higgins to attend Boston College’s
business school. “But each one of them said the same
thing, ‘I’ll write this for you. You’ll be fine, you’ll get in,
you’ll enjoy it. But don’t you think you’d rather be a
political cartoonist?’” He took their advice to heart.
Higgins shifted from local news to national concerns when he landed at the Chicago Sun-Times as a freelancer,
then as a staffer. The leap, he says, was a small one: “Nepotism, greed and racism still prevail on the national
scene as well, and some of the faces are the same. It’s just a wider screen.”
“Had they not encouraged me to use my God-given
gifts and seriously consider political cartooning as a worthy vocation,” Higgins says. “I might be an out-of-his-element businessman looking back in time and thinking of
what might have been.” He adds, “It reinforces that there’s
someone out there that’s guiding you, and showing you
the doors that you can choose. I feel blessed in that way.”
After getting into Boston College and deferring a year
to work with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC), Higgins
opted out of graduate school and returned to Chicago,
where he started his career as a political cartoonist at The
Daily Northwestern, the student newspaper at
Northwestern University. Szep, now a friend and mentor,
encouraged him to stay on the often difficult path of editorial work—a paper may have 50 reporters, but it’ll only
have one political cartoonist.
Eventually, Higgins broke into the big leagues with a gig
at The Chicago Sun-Times. He has endured the ups and
downs of the newspaper industry for three decades, filed
work from Cuba, the Soviet Union and Ireland, and has the
volume of work—and the awards—to show for it. A spate
of honors, not the least of which is his 1989 Pulitzer, share a
shelf with his 2004 Sanctae Crucis Award from Holy Cross.
The College recognized Higgins for his “concern for those
with great need but little power,” and his “regard for the
verities of justice and compassion and honesty.”
Five years later, when My Kind of Toon, Chicago Is hit
bookstores, Higgins’ signed autographs for four hours at
the launch party, which to no one’s surprise took place at
The Billy Goat. The books sold out that night … a
Chicago pat on the back for someone who has known and
loved the city his entire life.
“If I had gone to another city, I would have enjoyed it,”
he says, “but not to the same degree.
“And no one can look at me and my work and say,
‘Well, what does he know, ’” he continues. “They know I
know. Maybe not as much as my editor, but I know enough
to make it fun for people to read and to make an impact.”
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LIVING THE MISS ION
Peace and Leadership
Focusing on the present, one courageous alumna builds a lasting legacy
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Hanging in a doorway of her
Milwaukee apartment is the purple
jumper that once transformed LisaMarie Calderone-Stewart ’79 into the
sword-wielding school mascot at basketball and football games.
“I was a Holy Cross Crusader,” she
says, proudly pointing out the giant
white cross on the front. “That’s what
I wore. It’s too precious to get rid of.”
The costume is not all that
Calderone-Stewart retained from her
days on the Hill: At Holy Cross, she
learned the Jesuit values that would
illuminate her life as an educator and
provide the strength to accept her
approaching death.
This determined advocate for
youth leadership and author of 20
books “hit a brick wall,” she says,
when diagnosed last summer with
lymphoma and, then, bile duct cancer. Treatment was ineffective—and
doctors told her in the fall that she
had perhaps six months to live. Since
then, the 51-year-old mother of
two—whose father died unexpectedly at age 53, and whose mother
fought a long battle with cancer—
has sought to devote her time to connecting with and assisting others.
“I’m dying at the perfect rate,” she
observes. “It’s slow enough so I have
time to write all my notes to all my
family and friends, and fast enough so
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I know it’s urgent.”
Calderone-Stewart’s main concern
is assuring the survival of Tomorrow’s
Present (tomorrowspresent.org), the
central city leadership ministry she
created at Milwaukee’s House of
Peace and The Leadership Center at
Cardinal Stritch University. Started in
1998, Tomorrow’s Present follows its
mission of “empowering youth and
adults to transform their communities
through learning, reflection, leadership and service,” by means of five
core programs.
A small group of friends and supporters has been meeting regularly
with Calderone-Stewart to learn all
they can about exactly how she
reaches young minds. “I have a committee of people working to help my
dream come true, ” she says. “That’s
an amazing blessing. Who gets that?
How can I feel unlucky or cheated?”
Looking back on her school days,
Calderone-Stewart says that her
father offered to pay for any college
her siblings and she selected, so long
as it was Jesuit.
“And we all had to take logic
because of the way the Jesuits make
you think,” she explains. “He insisted
that thinking and making good deci-
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sions and understanding what you
believe was so essential, and that no
one could do it like the Jesuits.”
The New Jersey native was a senior in high school when she came to
campus to visit her brother, Joe
Calderone ’78, then a first-year student. Calderone-Stewart says she
immediately fell for the small school
on the hill and remembers being particularly impressed by how well all
the professors knew her brother.
(Lisa-Marie and Joe’s brother Steve
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University in Chicago and her Ed.D.
in leadership from Cardinal Stritch
University. Always she held fast to
the Holy Cross tradition of service to
others, a sense of purpose and an
emphasis on giving glory to God. “If
you’re doing something, and you start
to feel like, ‘wow, I’m pretty impressive,’ then you’re no longer doing it
for the glory of God,” she remarks.
“That’s something I’ve tried to
impress upon young people.”
“When Lisa was a student at Holy
“I have a committee of people working to help my
dream come true. That’s an amazing blessing.
Who gets that? How can I feel unlucky or cheated?”
—Lisa-Marie Calderone-Stewart ’79
Calderone followed them to Mount
St. James a few years later, earning his
degree in 1981.)
A psychology major, CalderoneStewart also had time for acting
classes, theater productions, the swim
team and, most importantly,
SPUD—Student Programs for Urban
Development. She signed up to work
at a daycare center attended by many
disadvantaged children, and the
experience of making a difference
helped her career goals come into
focus.
After Holy Cross, CalderoneStewart went on to receive her master’s degree in education from Lesley
College in Cambridge, a master’s
degree in pastoral studies from Loyola
Cross, I would occasionally offer a
course in Philosophy of Education,”
says Special Assistant to the
President Rev. Paul F. Harman, S.J. “I
remember Lisa as an excellent student in my class. Her enthusiasm for
teaching and offering encouragement
to young people was very evident. It
is humbling to realize all she has
accomplished.”
Calderone-Stewart has devoted
her life, and trained countless others,
to find God in both joys and in struggles. Though her energy is waning,
she remains a crusader for good.
Jim Stingl is a local columnist at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and its Internet
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ADVANCEMENT
Stransky Foundation Establishes $1 Million
Fund to Support Student Research
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The Robert J. Stranksy Foundation, guided by the leadership
of foundation trustee Michael C. Trimboli ’72, has established a $1 million fund that will enable students to engage
in original scientific research in partnership with faculty
members. The fund will provide each recipient both with
scholarship support and with additional fellowship funding
during one summer and one academic year to conduct scholarly research under the guidance of a faculty mentor.
The fund topples financial barriers for aspiring students by
giving them the freedom to dedicate themselves to research
for a sizeable period of time. By immersing themselves in
high-level inquiry, accompanying professors to professional
meetings and occasionally co-authoring papers, students gain
valuable experience that helps them excel in graduate school
or scientific careers. “In today’s academic environment, this
kind of experience is absolutely essential—both to the students’ future success, and to the College’s ability to build on
its excellent reputation in the sciences,” says Timothy R.
Austin, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the
College. “It is the natural extension of the challenging academic environment that already exists at Holy Cross, which
gives students access to state-of-the-art instrumentation,
emphasizes original thinking and provides mentoring support
from gifted and committed faculty.”
The nature of the gift also meshes well with the Stransky
Foundation’s purpose. “Over the years, the Foundation has
really zeroed in on education and the sciences, particularly as
they relate to health and medicine, so this was a great fit,”
Trimboli says. “We know that the rigors of scientific research
at Holy Cross will give students a leg up when they get to
graduate school and begin to compete in the research arena.”
Robert Stranksy, the third-generation owner of a Buffalo,
N.Y.-based hardware store, established the Foundation in
1987. After Stransky’s death in 1995, Trimboli and a fellow
trustee assumed responsibility for continuing the
Foundation’s work. Over the years, wise investment strategies have grown the Foundation’s resources considerably and
Michael C. Trimboli ’72 has guided the Robert J. Stransky
Foundation since 1995. The Foundation recently made a
generous gift that topples the financial hurdles facing
students devoted to scientific research.
expanded the support it provides to a range of nonprofit
organizations. The National Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences recently recognized Trimboli for his contributions
to the Emmy award-winning program “Reading Rainbow”
produced by WNED-TV in Buffalo.
At Holy Cross, the Foundation has made a series of gifts
since the early 1990s supporting scholarships and fellowships,
and this latest gift creates the $1 million fund into which
existing scholarships and fellowships will be folded. “Holy
Cross has been a superb steward of the Stransky Grant
funds,” adds Trimboli, who is a principal partner in Pumpkin
Ridge Associates, an Oregon- and Arizona-based consulting
firm specializing in issues relating to the development and
construction of golf courses and sports management.
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Current job: “After years of working in finance and
accounting, I attended Columbia Business School
to pursue an MBA and make a career switch to
product development and management. Currently,
I am a vice president in the global wealth management division at Morgan Stanley in New York.”
The working life: “While I have always loved being
a student, working has been very fulfilling. My career allows me to apply what I learned during my
time at Holy Cross. Additionally, it affords me the
time and resources to pursue other interests such
as the ballet, athletics and volunteerism.”
Name: Mara Lise Terlizzi ’96
Hometown: Andover, Mass.
Family: Father, Michael ’70; mother, Elizabeth;
brother, Michael ’00
What she did at Holy Cross: “I co-founded and
coached the Women’s Lacrosse Club and was a resident adviser and a senior interviewer.”
The impression it left: “Holy Cross was my first academic experience in a Catholic environment. While
I had an appreciation of my Catholic heritage, Holy
Cross made me realize how much I didn’t know
about my own background and how much I enjoyed being part of the broader Catholic community. Holy Cross provided me with an education
both inside and outside of the classroom that reinforced the Catholic connection and brought me
closer to my faith.”
Memorable Holy Cross moments: “My father is
also an enthusiastic Holy Cross alumnus. Growing
up, we would visit with his alumni friends and their
children, many of whom attended Holy Cross with
me. My parents and my brother would often visit
me and tailgate at football games, arriving with a
truckload of food (literally!). Some of their alumni
friends would join us, and the tailgates became
something of a mini reunion. It was great to see
different generations together at these events, and
it really brought out a lot of camaraderie.”
Why she stays connected: “Both my family and
very close friends have shared my Holy Cross experience, and so it is quite natural for me to stay connected to the College.”
Why she gives to Holy Cross: “I am grateful for
what Holy Cross has provided me: the skills for a
good career, great friends and a deeper connection
to my Catholic identity. It is important to me that
Holy Cross has the resources to maintain its excellence, and I am committed to doing my part.”
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Krug Gift Recognizes the Importance of
Hands-on Learning
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Sam Krug ’65 has made
a major gift to support
Holy Cross’ summer
research program, thereby creating opportunities for students to conduct original research
alongside accomplished
faculty members. The
gift will help students in
all subjects gain a deeper
understanding of their
coursework and accrue
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valuable experience that
will help advance their
work after they leave Mount St. James.
Timothy R. Austin, vice president for academic
affairs and dean of the College, has pushed for an expansion of Holy Cross’ offerings of “hands-on” research
experiences such as these, which are becoming increasingly vital to students’ preparation in all subjects—particularly in the sciences.
Krug’s own career path illustrates the impact that
research projects can have on a student’s future—and is
also emblematic of the way that academic experiences at
Holy Cross can be meaningful turning points for young
and ambitious minds.
Krug arrived at Holy Cross aspiring to become a journalist, but when he accompanied a friend to sample a
survey course in psychology, Krug caught the bug that
would determine his career path for years to come. For
the remainder of his time on the Hill, he focused his
efforts on psychology and, after graduation, earned a
Ph.D. in personality assessment at the University of
Illinois.
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assistant to a faculty member who specialized in personality theory and whose work was highly quantitative,
relying heavily on computer programs and analyses.
“First of all, the research assistantship was very practical
because it helped pay for my education,” he recalls.
Beyond the financial boon, it also boosted his ability to
excel in his studies. “My ongoing involvement in
research made the coursework more relevant and valuable. I was learning about things I could use on a daily
basis.”
Krug hopes his gift will do the same for Holy Cross
students. “I think a lot of undergraduate students aren’t
sure what they want to do yet, but if they can get some
real-world experience, it will give them a better feel for
what they really want to pursue,” he says.
After earning his Ph.D., Krug worked for a psychological testing firm for nearly two decades, designing tools
to help a wide range of clients—from clinical psychologists to corporations to national defense organizations—
assess certain traits among their patients and employees.
Assignments ran the gamut from screening nuclear
power plant workers for emotional stability, to helping
businesses determine what kinds of workers they should
hire and promote, to ensuring that military personnel
were fit to carry weapons.
In 1982, Krug launched his own educational testing
company, MetriTech, which over the years has helped no
fewer than 25 state educational agencies measure student achievement. Over the last decade, educational
testing has gained increased attention through the No
Child Left Behind Act, which requires states to document
student achievement at regular intervals throughout
grade school and high school.
MetriTech assesses all forms of student achievement
but specializes in measuring English language proficiency. Recognizing the company’s niche, the federal govern-
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ment commissioned MetriTech in 2003 to assist the
Immigration and Naturalization Service in creating an
updated citizenship test.
Krug continues his academic work as adjunct professor at the University of Illinois, where he serves on the
alumni board for the psychology department; he has
written several books and articles on the subjects of testing and personality. His training in psychology began on
a whim one day in a classroom on Mount St. James, but
has profoundly influenced his career choice and life.
With his gift, Krug’s generosity will ensure that future
Holy Cross graduates will have the opportunity to delve
more deeply into their chosen fields and to begin the
process of research that could lead to a lifetime of discovery and achievement.
Laura Freeman is a freelance writer based in Wilbraham,
Mass. She writes about a variety of topics, including philanthropy, finance, local business, culture and lifestyle.
More Advancement News and Notes
The Holy Cross Leadership
Council of New York will
honor Maggie Wilderotter
’77, chairman and chief executive officer of Frontier Communications, during its
annual fundraiser on May 11,
2010, at The Pierre Hotel in
New York. With questions on
the dinner, or how to purchase tables or tickets, contact Alison Eyler by
phone at 508-793-2246 or by e-mail at
[email protected].
Holy Cross has one of the strongest records of
alumni giving of any college or university in the
country. For more than half a century, participation rates of over 50 percent not only have kept
our tradition of excellence alive, they have made
us a national leader in alumni giving. Each gift,
$20 or $200,000, is meaningful as we strive to
maintain this enviable record that only a handful
of schools can claim. The College is asking again
for all alumni to join in this year's call for giving:
The Jerry Sheehan '52 Participation Challenge.
If 53 percent of alumni make a gift in this fiscal
year, Jerry Sheehan '52, P81, 80 will give Holy
Cross $500,000 on June 30. The benefit of your
generosity will be felt by students across campus. Please participate in the Sheehan Challenge and keep Holy Cross in the top 10
schools nationwide for alumni participation.
Visit www.holycross.edu/give.
Speaking of alumni giving…
The Chronicle of Higher Education touted Holy
Cross in a feature about best practices of colleges with admirable alumni giving rates (“5
Colleges That Inspire Alumni Giving, and How
They Do It,” Feb. 21, 2010). In the piece, writer
Kathryn Masterson notes that, “more than half
of Holy Cross’ 32,000 alumni give to the college. That figure far exceeds the national average alumni-participation rate of 10 percent,
and is one of the highest rates of alumni giving for colleges that report the figures.” She
credits Fr. McFarland’s outreach to young
alumni and traditions including the College’s
lively class letters program with the impressive
statistic. (The other four colleges featured in
the story are Amherst College in Massachusetts, Bennett College in North Carolina, Carleton College in Minnesota and Middlebury
College in Vermont.) View the story online at
www.holycross.edu/hcm/alumnigiving/
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HOLY CROSS PHILANTHROPY DAY
To honor the importance of philanthropy at Holy Cross and to educate students about the role benefactors play
in their education, the College celebrated Philanthropy Day on March 10.
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Holy Cross celebrates March 10. Why? Because from the brisk winds of March 10 through the excitement of
Commencement Day in May and right to the end of the fiscal year in sunny late June, the College operates
solely on the generosity of donors—both contributions made this year and income from the endowment. That’s
right … tuition, room and board only cover expenses for part of the year. After that, it is the legendary philanthropy of the community that keeps Holy Cross moving.
Alumni Association
Note from the HCAA President
The Holy Cross Alumni
Association enters a new
decade not only with a new
name (be sure to read the
article on Page 36), but also
with new (and easy) ways for
us to stay connected with
each other—including a presence on Facebook and
LinkedIn. Your alumni organization’s officers and board
are working on several valuable programs to bring Holy Cross to you as well as reasons
to invite you back to campus. For instance, the Holy Cross
Alumni Association’s annual continuing education day,
Classroom Revisited, is slated for April 10. You should
already have received a brochure and an e-mail announcing
the details, so please register and join us. Those who have
participated in the past will tell you that the classes offered
by Holy Cross faculty are terrific and a wonderful way to
reinvigorate that spirit of learning by engaging in the dialogue of the Holy Cross classroom. As we anticipate the
long-awaited signs of springtime, on behalf of the Holy
Cross Alumni Association’s officers and board, we hope
that 2010 will bring you health and happiness and that you
will stay in touch with our beloved Holy Cross.
Mark W. Powers ’85
President
Holy Cross Alumni Association
“G oodtim e” Ma r ch in g B a n d Alu m n i G r o up
Did you play under “Doc” Mirliani? Did you march to Prince’s drum?
Were you part of the rugby shirt apple corps? If you were once part of
the legendary “Goodtime” Marching Band, we’re looking for you!
In 2010, the band will celebrate its 100th year performing on Fitton
Field, and we are trying to identify as many band alumni as possible to
create a Marching Band alumni group. Contact
Christine Tree ’92, at [email protected],
or the Alumni Office, at 508-793-2418, and let
us know that you are a proud “Goodtime”
alumnus/alumna!
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Alumni Group Gets Fresh New Name in 2010
Holy Cross Alumni Association embraces revitalized identity, new communications strategy
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With an eye to the future, the College of the Holy Cross
General Alumni Association’s board of directors has voted to
change the organization’s name to the Holy Cross Alumni
Association. The vote was taken at its October 2009 meeting.
With more than 32,000 members, the Holy Cross Alumni
Association is the largest organization associated with the
College.
“The decision to change the name came after months of
research and discussion,” says Mark Powers ’85, president of
the Holy Cross Alumni Association. “Our goals are to make
the alumni association more accessible to its members,
encourage greater participation in its programs and better
communicate how the organization is serving the Holy Cross
alumni community.”
The name change is an opportunity to explore new ways
to introduce the association to younger alumni, as well as
reintroduce it to older grads, he explains.
Mount St. James for the 28th year of “The Classroom Revisited.” Take advantage of the opportunity to participate in
engaging lectures and workshops offered by some of Holy
information, contact the Alumni Office at 508-793-2418.
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Join fellow alumni, parents and friends returning to
events will be posted at holycross.edu/alumni; for more
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“The Holy Cross Alumni Association offers a range of
services, including regional clubs, career resources, insurance
programs and scholarships to alumni children,” Powers adds.
“We also provide travel opportunities, insurance, admissions
office support, summer fellowships and social activities. With
this change, we have a tremendous opportunity to communicate what the alumni association does and encourage more
alumni to get involved with the organization.”
Throughout 2010, the Holy Cross Alumni Association
will be rolling out its new name at various forums, including
reunions, homecoming, mailings and e-mails.
In addition, “The Holy Cross Alumni Association will
have a presence on social networking sites, including Twitter,
Facebook and LinkedIn,” Powers comments. “We realize that
younger alumni use Internet-based resources to communicate. The Holy Cross Alumni Association will utilize those
avenues, as well as more traditional methods, to reach all
Holy Cross alumni.”
The new name marks the beginning of a new chapter for
Holy Cross alumni, Powers says. “Holy Cross is a great institution, and our pride in being associated with the school continues long after we’ve left College Hill,” he observes. “The
alumni association’s new name highlights our lasting connections to the school and allows us to strengthen those ties.”
Maureen E. Moran is a member of the Holy Cross Alumni
Association Executive Committee
Continuing Education Day
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Cross’ finest faculty members! A full schedule of the day’s
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Nominees Announced for Alumni Association Board
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The Holy Cross Alumni Association has announced the
names of those alumni nominated to serve as officers and
members of its board of directors. Kristyn M. Dyer ’94
has been appointed executive secretary. Michael H.
Shanahan ’78 has been re-appointed treasurer. Alumni
Association bylaws do not require yearly nomination to
these offices.
Nominations for the board were selected in accordance with the Alumni Association bylaws, which allow
for no more than 20 alumni to be chosen annually for
three-year terms, at least 10 of them as at-large members,
and 10 drawn one each from the immediate graduating
class and from each third class preceding the graduating
class.
Although this slate of candidates represents the
choices of the HCAA nominating committee, it should
be noted that any member of the HCAA may be nominated in accordance with Article VII of the bylaws, as
follows: “Any member of the Alumni Association may
be nominated for director by a petition containing the
signatures of 20 alumni with the executive secretary no
later than April 1.”
Any member of the HCAA who would like to be so
nominated should submit a petition to Kristyn M. Dyer
’94 by April 1. If any petition should be received, a ballot will appear in the next issue of Holy Cross Magazine
so that alumni can vote for the candidate(s) nominated
by petition.
President
Colleen F. Amann ’92
Colleen F. Amann ’92
received her master’s
degree in speech pathology from the University of
Connecticut and holds
national and state licenses. She currently stays at
home with her four children. Amann has served
as a class agent, as president of the Holy Cross Club of
Maine (2000-05), and as an Admissions volunteer. She
has also been a Holy Cross Alumni Association director
for many years, serving as chair of the Nominations and
Elections Committee, and as a member of the Regional
Clubs and Executive committees. In addition, Amann
has been a member—and, in recent years, vice president—of the (ad hoc) In Hoc Signo Committee. She
lives in Scarborough, Maine, with her husband, Peter
’93, and their children, Emily, Molly, Maggie and
Brendan.
President-Elect
Brian A. O’Connell ’71
Brian A. O’Connell is
assistant superintendent
and business manager of
the Winchendon (Mass.)
Public Schools. An attorney and a 1974 graduate of
Harvard Law School, he
was first elected to the
board of directors of the
Alumni Association in 1978—and has served continuously as a director or, as a member, of the Alumni
Senate, since then. O’Connell has been vice president of
the association since 2007 and co-chair of the
Committee on the Alumni Senate since 2004. He is a
past member of the association’s committees on nominations and elections and community outreach. O’Connell
also served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Holy
Cross from 1971 to 1973. A member of the Holy Cross
Club of Greater Worcester’s board of directors since
1974, he was the club’s president from 1980 to 1981. A
member of the city of Worcester School Committee
since 1984, O’Connell also serves on the board of
trustees of both Anna Maria College and Worcester
Academy. He is a member of the Equestrian Order of the
Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and St. John’s Church
Parish Council in Worcester where he is a resident.
To view the full slate of HCAA Board of Directors
candidates, visit holycross.edu/alumni and click on
“Alumni Association Board Nominations 2010.”
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FLASHback
Stories from Mount St. James
Cool, Clear Water
Even as Mount St. James changed from raising crops to educating students,
its inhabitants made use of the Hill’s abundant, pure water.
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Photos courtesy of Holy Cross Archives
Water has always been the defining element on
Mount St. James, originally known as
Pakachoag Hill. According to some sources the
Native American name means “the hill of
pleasant springs,” referring not to the season but
to the many sources of water on the eminence.
It was the water that attracted European farmers
to the hill, despite the rocks and ledge with
which they had to struggle. Before them, the
Nipmuc Indians, or “the Freshwater People,”
called this land home. What we know today as
the city of Worcester, they called
“Quinsigamond,” or “pickerel fishing place.”
The Blackstone River—named the “Birthplace
of the American Industrial Revolution” because
the new nation’s first textile mill was built along
its banks in 1790—begins its trek down to
Notes on the back of preserved photos in the Holy Cross Archives give
Rhode Island at the foot of Pakachoag Hill.
In 1843 when Rev. James Fitton bought the some clues to the transition of the College from farm to school. The handland for what would become the College of the written memo on the reverse side of this photo reads: “Cowbarn 1901. Old
barn and stable (foreground). Stable became astronomy observatory.”
Holy Cross, it consisted of a farm and about 60
acres. Worcester contractor and benefactor
tom of the hill, catching perch, horned pout, eels and
Tobias F. Boland built an academy two stories high and 70
trout. In the winter there was skating on the pond and
feet long on the property—and the first 30 students were
along the canal.
enrolled. Bishop Benedict J. Fenwick was delighted with
With a working farm sharing space with the academy,
the purchase, making frequent reference to the water feaHoly Cross’ hill was still very much an agrarian space. A
tures of the location. It was, he said, “situated on the
farm diary from 1869 gives one an idea of how busy a place
declivity of an extensive hill, which is watered at the base
it was. The “Account of Stock” includes “one fullblooded
by a little stream of pure water.” In advertisements for the
Jersey bull 2 years old, 4 heifers, 1 steer, 2 oxen, 2 calves ...
school he alluded to the old Indian name of the “hill of
2 sows—one suckling the young ones ... 2 workhorses both
pleasant springs” and boasted of the spot’s “abundant supold too light for hill work, 2 family horses used for the misply of good water.”
sions.” Newspaper and almanac clippings describe such
Irish laborers performed the task of terracing the hill
farm tips as the proper use of manure on potatoes and how
when work was slack on the Blackstone Canal or Tobias
to harden the necks of oxen teams.
Boland’s many projects. These men were also educated at
the academy. Students fished in the “fine pond” at the bot-
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The imposing spires of Fenwick were a stark contrast to the agrarian vista previously viewed on Pakachoag Hill, as seen in this
photo from 1880.
The farm was still providing food for the Jesuit and student kitchens in the late 1950s. Former superintendent of
grounds Jim Long recalls there being five or six farmhands
at the time. The present site of Hogan “was all vegetable
gardens and nurseries,” he says, and the College still had a
huge domed oven for baking, and even a cider press. Long
and his co-workers would occasionally ride the farm’s
horses for recreation.
The old hill is still full of water. Even the new soccer
field, located on the top of the hill, needs judicious
drainage. “Touch a spot with a backhoe and all the water
pours out,” says George Query, greenhouse manager and
landscape foreman. “The land is all ledge, and if you disturb it the water will find its way out.”
Moses with a backhoe. Water from the rock. Small
wonder that the early founders of the College thought
Pakachoag such an auspicious location.
James Dempsey was a columnist for The Evening
Gazette and The Telegram & Gazette in Worcester,
Mass., for 18 years. The winner of awards from the
Associated Press and United Press International, he now
teaches writing, journalism and literature at Worcester
Polytechnic Institute and Clark University.
Tobias Boland’s great-granddaughter,
Margaret Boland, and Thomas L. Rooney
have written The Irish Pioneer, a historical novel about Boland, his daring trek
from Ireland to America, his loves and
losses and his vital contributions to the
founding of Holy Cross (Magnolia Mansions Press, 2009).
Enjoy an excerpt of this personal tale
at holycross.edu/magazine under Web exclusives.
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Book Notes
In the Spotlight
Hindsight: The Promise and Peril of Looking Backward
by Mark Freeman (Oxford University Press, 2010)
“Oh well, hindsight is
20/20.” For many of us,
hearing those words
implies that we could
have made a better
choice. For professor of
psychology and dean of
the Class of 2011,
Mark Freeman, the
concept of hindsight
is more than a tossaway regret. In his
new book, Freeman carefully reviews the possibility that looking to our past can be an important step in
self-discovery. Written for academic readers as well as “the
reflective general reader, the kind of person who’s given to
thinking about the world and his or her place in it,” the book
also investigates the role of hindsight in building a moral
life; it recently won the 2010 Theodore Sarbin Award for
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You write about “narrative reflection.” What does that mean?
By “narrative reflection,” I refer to the fact that what we’re
experiencing at any given moment, meaningful though it may
be in itself, acquires further meaning and further significance
as a function both of what comes later and of the whole—the
evolving story—of which it’s a part. What this suggests is that
reflection on our lives frequently assumes narrative form: We
“read” the episodes of the past from the standpoint of the present, placing them within the fabric of narrative.
You say the concept of life lived and life as told is something you’ve
been interested in for years. What sparked that “obsession”?
Although I can trace the obsession at hand to some discrete
features of the past—some research I was doing as a young
The Violent Person
Mind & Medicine
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BY RAYMOND B. FLANNERY JR. ’64
BOB PROCTOR LIFE SUCCESS
PUBLISHING, 2009
BY MARIANNE URBANSKI, D.M.D.,
’82 P13
Raymond Flannery, a licensed clinical psychologist and an associate clinical professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School, has studied the
intricate nature of stress, violence
and psychological trauma for more than 40 years. In his latest
book, The Violent Person, Flannery outlines professional risk
management strategies for safety and care. He notes that in
their daily work, health care workers are often in the path of
violence, falling victim to homicide, hostage taking, robbery
and sexual assault. The Violent Person aims to save the lives of
these front-line caretakers—and is of interest to any reader
contemplating stress and the workings of the human mind.
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outstanding contributions to theoretical and philosophical
psychology. HCM chatted with Freeman about Hindsight.
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Studies supporting the connection
between the mind and body have
given new evidence about the
power of our brains and our attitudes to heal and retain good
health. In her new book, Mind & Medicine: In Harmony for
Healing, Marianne Urbanski, D.M.D., investigates how we
think and how our various engrained belief systems affect
our health and well-being. Through patient stories and
concepts learned through her own practice, Urbanski
explains simple tools and techniques that can be used to
improve one’s mental outlook and overall health.
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SYLLABUS
Montserrat Seminar:
Stewardship and Sustainability
The Book of Basketball:
The NBA According to
the Sports Guy is ESPN
personality Bill Simmons’ entertaining romp through the past,
present and future of pro basketball. In his latest book, he tackles every major basketball
debate and takes readers inside his five-level
shrine to the 96 greatest players in the history
of the sport.
Professor: Alice Laffey, associate professor,
religious studies
Course overview: Offered this spring, the
course considers the use/abuse of creation in
light of the Christian tradition, which identifies
all creation as belonging to God and human beings as entrusted with its care. Students examine
the concepts of responsible stewardship and the
sustainability of natural resources, particularly water.
Sample course materials: Texts: The Sustainability Revolution:
Portrait of a Paradigm Shift, by Andres R. Edwards and David W.
Orr, and Living Green: A Practical Guide to Simple Sustainability, by
Greg Horn; Films: The Milagro Beanfield War and Water for Life;
Documents from selected Web sites, including Catholic Coalition
for Climate Change, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, National
Catholic Rural Life Conference and the Association of Buddhists for
the Environment
Assignments: Selected readings; class presentations; participation in class/small group discussions and community-based learning opportunities; three essays; final project
Class visit: Current events discussion about the environment;
PowerPoint presentation by Peter Walsh ’13 and Alec Bonelli ’13
regarding the 2002 Australian Catholic Bishops’ Statement on the
Environment, small group discussions/class presentation about solutions to the area’s environmental issues, using topics provided by
the student leaders
Professor quote: “My goal is to increase the consciousness of
students about the value of the natural world and the interdependence of all creation. Through the critical examination of documents promulgated by religious leaders on the environment and
coverage of environmental issues in the media, I hope that students
will develop a deeper appreciation of the natural world and a
stronger commitment to behaviors that help to sustain it.”
Professor bio: Joining the College faculty in 1981, Associate Professor Alice Laffey has taught in Montserrat since the program’s inception in fall 2008; receiving a baccalaureate, licentiate and
doctorate of sacred scripture from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in
Rome, she specializes in the Hebrew Scriptures, feminist hermeneutics, and ecology and the Bible. Her publications include Appreciating God’s Creation through Scripture.
Student quote: “‘Stewardship and Sustainability’ is increasing
my awareness of the severity of our environment situation,” says
Samantha Nardi ’13, of Wallingford, Conn. “I am learning ways
each person can do his/her part to help the environment, as we
have an ethical responsibility to protect God’s creation.”
The Holy Cross Bookstore offers the works of many
alumni and faculty authors. Visit the store on campus
or online at http://bookstore.holycross.edu
Part of the Natural World cluster, “Stewardship and Sustainability” and the course “Biology of Health and Disease,” taught in
the fall by Professor of biology Mary Lee Ledbetter, comprise the
yearlong seminar, “Human Health & Creation’s Wellbeing.”
What are the greatest possibilities and pitfalls of
our ability to re-tell our own stories from a current
vantage point?
The great promise of hindsight lies in our
capacity to see things anew from the “aerial
view” of the present. In this sense, hindsight is
a key player—in fact, I would suggest, the key
player—in the examined life. It is especially
important in moral life, where there is a tendency to act first and think later. But herein
lies some of the peril too. For it is precisely
through hindsight that we come to see our
weaknesses and limits. And as we all know,
this can hurt a great deal. The “peril,” therefore, is nothing less than the peril of selfknowledge.
The Book of
Basketball
ESPN/BALLANTINE
HARDCOVER, 2009
BY BILL SIMMONS ’92
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graduate student at the University of Chicago, the extraordinary courses I was able to
take with the philosopher Paul Ricoeur,
among others—it really derives mainly from
my own experience in the world. So often,
things appear one way, and it’s only later,
with distance, that we’re able to see what we
either couldn’t see or wouldn’t see earlier on.
For me, it’s just a fundamental aspect of being
human.
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Climb of a Lifetime
An adventurous Crusader finds herself standing atop
Africa’s tallest peak
John Buckingham
It sounded like such an exciting vacation
idea when her pal Janel Jorgensen, an
Olympic swimming medalist, called last
August.
Climb Mount Kilimanjaro, and then
go on a four-day excursion through three
Tanzanian national game parks. A perfect
January escape from the high-pressure
world of investment management, thought
Coleen Lynch ’95, a Holy Cross Hall of
Fame swimmer. What a nice idea. It should
be
relaxing, so much fun ...
John Gearan ’65
While trudging up the rocky Machame
Trail for seven hours in the dark, battling nausea and toting
a backpack through wind-blown snow and bone-chilling
cold, Lynch began reconsidering the wisdom of her getaway
choice. “It was much more daunting than I had imagined,’’
she understates.
Ah, but the payoff: Standing near the top of Mount
Kilimanjaro at Stella Point. Amid a band of 15 climbers,
Lynch gazed out above the clouds to witness a spectacular
sunrise. It was a spiritual moment, she recalls, inspiring an
awe that Jesuit theologian Jean Danielou might have
offered as proof of the existence of God. “Tears of joy, tears
of wonder, tears of accomplishment: a whole range of emotions whirled about,’’ Lynch says. That majesty, standing in
the snow, looking down at the sunshine glistening upon
ancient glaciers, made her forget her awful stomach upset
and utter exhaustion intensified by altitude.
Having paused for a cup of Thermos tea, Lynch and her
comrades trekked another hour to reach Uhuru Peak, at
19,344 feet the highest point in Africa. (Three volcanic
cones form the cratered tops of Kilimanjaro: Kebo, Mawenzi
and Shira. Uhuru Peak is part of Kebo.) “The guide told us
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Uhuru would be a ‘short stroll’ ... had I known how long and
hard it would be, I might have turned back,’’ she explains.
After the obligatory picture taking for reasons of personal posterity, she would come down quickly from that
high. The ascent had taken seven days, from the tropic
climes of the rainforest and moors, through barren lunarlike landscapes, to an arctic-tundra mountaintop. The
descent took only seven hours.
“I know many others, including Holy Cross students and
alums, have made this climb. It is not a technical mountainclimbing feat requiring ropes, spikes and picks,” Lynch says.
“Yet it is a meaningful challenge and very special individual
accomplishment.”
Certainly this is not a vacation for the faint of heart.
Each year, nearly 20 hikers, guides and porters die—from
high altitude lung and cerebral complications and a variety of other causes—trying to reach one of Kilimanjaro’s
three peaks along Machame, the steepest and most scenic
of seven routes. Only 40 percent of those who try make it
all the way to Uhuru Peak. “That last day was exhilarating,
but rugged. We rested four hours (7 p.m. to 11 p.m.) at the
high camp (Kosovo), but I couldn’t sleep. We left at midnight for the seven-hour summit hike, wearing headlamps
to light the way. Our stay on top was brief before the
descent,” Lynch recalls. “Fourteen straight hours of hiking
on no sleep ... it was a real test.”
Lynch did not take Kilimanjaro lightly. As one would
expect from a high-performance athlete, she prepared well.
Lynch had some hiking experience: Two years before, she
had ventured with Sarah Garrity, a 1982 classmate of her
sister Mary’s, to Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas
8,000 feet above sea level in the mountains of Peru.
Slowed by a thyroid problem last summer, Lynch knew
she wasn’t in shape to climb even Mount St. James. In
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August, she plunged into training with Jorgensen, a 17-yearold butterfly sensation from Ridgefield, Conn., when she
won a silver medal in the 400-meter relays at the 1988 Seoul
Olympics.
Jorgensen, an All-American and Hall of Fame swimmer
at Stanford University, is executive director of Swim
Across America, a nonprofit that coordinates events
throughout the country to raise money for cancer research.
Lynch participates in the annual Boston Harbor swim to
help the cause.
To build their stamina, Lynch and Jorgensen ran the
steep steps of Harvard Stadium. They hit their local gym to
work out. “I wore my hiking boots and packed on the equipment and got some very strange looks,’’ Lynch recalls. They
hiked some nearby lumps such as Mount Wachusett,
Mounts Monadnock and Lafayette in New Hampshire and
the Blue Hills in the outskirts of Boston.
Lynch, inducted into the Holy Cross Varsity Club Hall of
Fame in 2001, is no stranger to arduous training. She had a
remarkable career as a freestyle swimmer.
Her dad, Hugh Lynch ’60, served his country as a Navy
pilot. In the early 1980s, Capt. Lynch and his wife,
Madeline, relocated to Newport, R.I., where he would soon
retire from active duty. He would continue to work there on
the staff at the U.S. Naval War College. Two of their children, Mary ’82, who later married Bill Supple ’81, and Paul
’84, were already attending Holy Cross and competing for
the Holy Cross swim team.
Eight years old at that time, Lynch began swimming
competitively. Tutored by her longtime coach, Christine
Hague, she swam for the Newport Navy Blues. Lynch later
starred at Rogers High School where she performed in track
and cross-country as well. Last year her exploits earned her
election into the Rhode Island Aquatic Hall of Fame.
At Holy Cross, under coach Barry Parenteau, Lynch
enjoyed immediate success, swimming with teammates
such as Crusader Hall of Famer Jill Addesa ’92, Maura
Walsh ’92, her roomie-to-be, Martina Moore ’95 and others. “Swimming didn’t define my whole college experience,
but I had a wonderful time competing with so many people
who remain my close friends today,” she says.
Lynch holds Holy Cross records in the 100, 200, 500
and 1,000 freestyle. As a senior she was named CoSwimmer of the Meet, winning all three freestyle events at
the Patriot League Championships. Winner of the 200 free
style at the National Catholic Championships as a junior
and senior, she won more than 100 events in her College
career and set a school record in the 100 free-style on her
final swim as a Crusader.
Lynch, named the 1995 Patriot League Scholar of the
Year, was voted the winner of the Varsity Club’s
Intercollegiate Athletic Achievement Award in her fourth
year.
Janel Jorgensen and Coleen Lynch ‘95 atop Mt. Kilimanjaro
In brief, she made a huge splash as a student-athlete.
Lynch, an account manager for the Boston-based investment firm of Eaton Vance, remains a Crusader superstar. An
ardent believer in giving back, she has served on the
President’s Council for the past decade; her sister Mary and
her husband, Bill Supple, are co-chairs of the Council. Since
graduation, Lynch has been a dedicated director of the Holy
Cross Varsity Club, reigning as its president and serving as a
member of its selection committee.
“Holy Cross has always been part of our extended family.
Jesuits such as Father Joseph LaBran, S.J., ’38 were special
friends before I came to Holy Cross. My family has always
been active here. My nephew, Ned Supple ’13, is swimming
for Barry (Parenteau). My family and so many close friends
are loyal Crusaders, and Holy Cross will always be a huge
part of my life,’’ says Lynch.
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Ernest Hemingway writes of Harry, his tragic main character in The Snows of Kilimanjaro: “Africa was where he had
been the happiest in the good time of his life, so he had
come here to start again. They had made this safari with the
minimum of comfort. There was no hardship; but there was
no luxury and he had thought he could get back into training that way. That someday he could work the fat off his soul
the way a fighter went into the mountains to work and train
in order to burn it out of his body.”
Harry never does climb Kilimanjaro. Coleen Lynch now
has. She says she has been given a jolt of inspiration.
“Maybe I’ll run a Boston Marathon or enter some triathlete
competition,” she adds with an impish smile.
Whatever this Crusader tries, she will likely make it to
the top.
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Athletics
Unsung Heroines of the Rink
Crusader women dominate on the ice,
fired by their passion for the sport
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They glide onto the ice as a few cheers from a small cadre
of faithful fans echo across the Hart Center rink on a
Friday night in February. A small pile of single-sheet programs rests on the shelf of the shuttered box-office window. No band plays. No concession stands are open.
Admission is free. It is business as usual for Holy Cross
women’s ice hockey.
The Crusader women should be the hottest ticket on
campus. They posted a remarkable 24-2-1 record last season, only their 10th as a varsity sport. They are sitting
atop the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC)
East with a gaudy 17-3-1 mark, as fierce rival Norwich
University pulls up to the Hart Center for the evening’s
matchup.
For these athletes, the game is the only thing. The
crowds and adulation may come later, after they have
built a foundation for their sport; for now, they play simply
because they love ice hockey.
The small crowd does not dampen the women’s ardor
on this wintry night, and Coach Peter Van Buskirk has
them fired up as usual. Playing in December at Norwich
up in Northfield, Vt., the Crusaders roared back from a 20 deficit to tie the Cadets. This is the showdown.
Women’s ice hockey, which allows no checking, features graceful skills complemented often by unfettered
skating; more artistry than anarchy. In this clash, however, a no-holds-barred game—make that donnybrook—
broke out. Amid a furious pace, bodies went flying, goals
became unhinged, coaches jawed at referees and each
other, and the crowd went ballistic. “I’ve never heard such
an uproar at a women’s hockey game,’’ remarked Charles
Baker, associate professor emeritus of French at Holy
Cross.
On hand were a loyal gallery of hollering students; a
good number of family, including Stacey Hochkins’ clan
from New Boston, Mich., and Lisa Wilson’s dad, Gary,
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who drove solo from Corunna, Ontario—plus a few faithful faculty members such as Baker and associate professor
of religious studies, Alice Laffey.
Fans are treated to a sudden-death game roiling with
dramatic conflict. Early in the overtime, Holy Cross seems
to have won when Stacey Hochkins ’12, the College’s
leading scorer, redirects a loose puck into the net, but the
goal becomes dislodged in the ensuing pile-up. The refs
disallow the goal, ruling that Hochkins skate-kicked the
puck in. “The video replay shows I didn’t make a kicking
motion,’’ professes Hochkins. “The puck bounced off
someone’s leg, probably mine.”
The controversy and confusion don’t end there.
Katelyn Doherty ’10, hustling to contain an airborne
puck, flattens Norwich’s Julie Fortier along the boards.
The contact is ruled coincidental and no penalty is called.
Cadet coach Mark Bolding, vociferous throughout,
launches a tirade of protest as shaken Fortier is being
attended to. (She is, thankfully, uninjured.) With under
10 ticks left, a tie seems inevitable, but a poked puck skids
up ice onto the stick of Jocelyn Kratchmer ’11. In a flash,
she fires a bullet, missing by mere inches.
Kratchmer deadlocked the score in the third period, 22, whistling in a wrister in full stride. “Jocelyn got me off
the hook,’’ notes Hochkins. Norwich’s Melissa Rundlett
pick-pocketed Kratchmer in front of the Crusader goal
and flicked the purloined puck into the net to put
Norwich up, 2-1.
Monique Gallant ’11, sensational in the Holy Cross
goal, has 26 saves, including several wondrous glove
snares on screechers. Forward Nicola Garat ’12, who tied
the game 1-all, time and again makes alert steals and
slashing moves. As usual co-captain Lisa Wilson ’10 plays
inspiring hockey.
The tie seems righteous. Fans roar their approval,
knowing they witnessed one helluva hockey game. The
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Crusader players, however, are not exactly ecstatic. “Two
games, two ties and we won’t get another shot at them,’’
sighs a disappointed Wilson.
Even though Holy Cross and Norwich play in the same
league, they will not face each other in the ECAC East
tournament, restricted to Division 3 colleges. The
Crusaders have no pathway to the NCAA’s national playoffs. They cannot dream about the kind of magical ride
the 2006 men’s hockey team took when the College
shocked powerhouse Minnesota in the NCAA Western
Regionals. These skating women attend a Division 1 college while playing in a Division 3 league. Instead, Holy
Cross’ trailblazers of the rink have to be happy repeating
as the champs in the four-team ECAC open tourney with
Division 2 foes St. Anselm and St. Michael’s and Division
1 Sacred Hart. On Feb. 28, hosting Holy Cross knocked
off St. Anselm, 3-1, to capture the crown. Hochkins, the
tournament MVP and ECAC East Player of the Year,
scored two goals. The Crusaders finished with a sparkling
20-4-2 overall record.
They accept who they are, a tight-knit group of pioneer women forging their way toward the promised land of
Division 1 competition—the only team among the
College’s 27 varsity sports that cannot compete in NCAA
playoffs. “We’re heading in the right direction ... maybe
we’ll become Division 1 in my time here,’’ remarks recordbreaker Hochkins.
Peter Cooke
Peter Cooke
Lisa Wilson ‘10
Kate O’Connor ‘10
Jocelyn Kratchmer ‘11
Van Buskirk has been the women’s head coach since
2000; four seasons ago, his position was upgraded to full
time. “I no longer had to manage the Hart Center as
well,’’ he notes. Today he and his assistant, Bill Bowes,
have much more time to recruit.
Using his vast network of hockey comrades, Van
Buskirk finds himself in far-flung, and extremely cold,
places searching for talent.
In Canada’s Provincial Women’s Hockey League
(PWHL), he discovered Wilson playing defense for the
Bluewater Junior Hawks. “She is special, our dynamic
leader who has earned the respect of her teammates and
can be vocal with them when she has to,’’ Van Buskirk
says.
Wilson, a captain for the last three seasons, hails from
a hockey family in Corunna, Ontario. She says she loves
the academic and athletic atmosphere at Holy Cross. “It’s
demanding, but I like the rigid routine. Challenging
classes and hockey six times a week,’’ remarks Wilson,
who aspires to a teaching and coaching career back home.
Up in Saskatchewan, Van Buskirk spies Kratchmer and
Emily Henry ’11, both playing in the Notre Dame College
tournament there. Teammates for the Saskatchewan
Prairie Ice back home, the young women are now Holy
Cross roomies.
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Peter Van Buskirk
assistant. At various times, he has
filled a dual role as director of Hart
Center operations.
As a student at Hudson High, Van
Buskirk was a three-sport captain
and a perennial schoolboy all-star.
Playing quarterback under Crusader
football Hall of Famer Vic Rimkus
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Peter Cooke
Hockey is a game Peter Van Buskirk
loves and respects. He has devoted a
large part of his life to fostering its
growth and teaching others how to
play it. He is known near and far as a
gentleman coach. For his many
achievements—including three
decades of coaching Holy Cross
hockey—Van Buskirk has been
honored with the prestigious
2010 John “Snooks” Kelley
Founders Award by the American Hockey Coaches Association
(AHCA).
He has succeeded in coaching
college men, being named the
AHCA’s 1983 Coach of the Year
(for Divisions 2 and 3).
He has succeeded in coaching
college women, being voted the
2009 ECAC East Coach of the
Year, as he guided the Crusaders
to a 24-2-1 record.
He has succeeded in coaching
high school boys, winning the
1978 Division 1 state title with
his Hudson (Mass.) Hawks.
Van Buskirk has also coached
year-round at countless camps
and clinics from Los Angeles to
Lake Placid to his own backyard.
He has gained the admiration
and loyal friendship of colleagues, players and foes alike.
Says John Burke, Rensselaer
women’s head coach, “Peter’s
professionalism and class are
things we should all strive to
emulate.”
Coach Peter Van Buskirk
Ann Ash Zelesky, Holy Cross’
associate athletic director, adds,
“Peter is a terrific coach and a
man and, also, as a pitcher/third
salt-of-the-earth-guy. He is the best.”
baseman in baseball. At the UniverThat sentiment reverberates around
sity of New Hampshire, Van Buskirk
the campus.
was team MVP in hockey and AllCoach of the Holy Cross women’s
Yankee Conference as a third baseice hockey team since 2000, Van
man. Van Buskirk resides in the
Buskirk served as the men’s head
Hudson High and UNH athletic halls
hockey coach from 1979 to 1988—
of fame. He served as a lieutenant in
and, again, for the 1996-97 season;
the Army Infantry during the Vietfrom 1991 to 1996, he was the men’s
nam War (1966-68), playing service
baseball while stationed in South
Korea.
His accomplishments have come
through determination and hard
work. While serving as the men’s
head coach, Van Buskirk taught
school in Hudson. He grew up in that
town, where his father worked at
the family-run Hudson Diner. His
mom, now 99 years old, taught
Peter in the fourth grade. His
brothers Joe and Dick were superb
high school athletes as well. In
2001, he married his wife, Susan,
and, that year, saw stepdaughter
Kirsten Demoga receive her degree
from Holy Cross; Kirsten is now an
attorney, practicing in Boston.
The current women’s ice hockey
players know that, in their coach,
they have more than a good guy,
they have an impassioned advocate for the game they all love.
“Coach Van Buskirk loves the
game of hockey tremendously!”
forward Christina D’Ambrogio ’11
says. “At practice, he steps onto
the ice with his purple track suit
and has his practice plan inside his
baseball cap.
“Sometimes when you are
walking past his office to go to the
locker room, he calls you in and
just starts talking about set plays,
line combinations, etc., and before
you know it, half an hour has gone
by,” she continues. “He has such
great passion for the game of
hockey that he can’t help talking
about it 24/7, and that’s what I
love about him!”
Flowing from his rich experiences come numerous stories he
loves to tell. Many are charming—
about playing hockey outdoors and
skating against the wind at night. He
does not brag. And, as one might expect, Van Buskirk says his AHCA lifetime achievement award is just a
matter of hanging around hockey
rinks too long.
But those who know him best,
know better.
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Recently Kratchmer emerged as a mini-media star when a
Canadian sports network (TSN) profiled her. In her hometown of Watrous, Saskatchewan, about 2,000 folks showed up
en masse for the TV shoot. The charming piece documents
how Kratchmer, at age 3, turned in her frilly dancing-class outfit for hockey pads, playing with the boys and enduring sneers
of “girls can’t play.” Sam Klassen, an NHL performer, skated
alongside Kratchmer as a kid. “She always fit in, and we always
stood up for her,” he recalls.
Seven Candians and their 13 American teammates have
meshed into a power to be reckoned with.
As a first year student, Hochkins pulled off a hat trick in her
first game. She went on to lead the league in goals (25), assists
(28) and points (53) while setting Crusader records in those
categories. Hochkins and Kratchmer shared MVP honors. This
season she’s leading the league again in point-scoring (26
goals, 18 assists).
Shuffling four lines of forwards, Van Buskirk likes keeping
the offensive pressure on opponents. Co-captain Kate
O’Connor ’09 provides more than the team’s unofficial mascot,
Riley, her black lab. Making the transition from defensive
prep-school star to a 5-11 power forward, she is always at the
center of the storm.
Kathy Kelley ’10, the Darling of Dedham, is a typical Van
Buskirk-brand sparkplug. A Massachusetts state champion and
Boston Globe all-star, the always upbeat scrapper had three
game-winning goals last season. Her dad, Joe, and mom, Mary
Rose, have missed only one game in her four years. “They went
to see my [twin] sister Kara play field hockey up at Bowdoin
College, so I gave them a pass!” Kelley says, smiling.
First-line, first-year forward Caroline English, along with
Garat, provide solid punch as do Wendy Nobrega ’10,
Christina D’Ambrogio ’11, Rebecca O’Quinn ’13, Meghan
Reynolds ’13 and Alyssa Ruhland ’13.
Doherty, out of Toronto, is Wilson’s sturdy sidekick who
can also rush the puck. That dynamic duo, along with the likes
of Henry, Colleen Krmpotich ’11, Amy Pfund ’12 and Mariah
Napolitano ’13, make the Crusaders’ defense impregnable at
times. Prime example: Castleton (Vt.) State managed only two
shots on goalie Gallant during a Crusader shutout. Gallant and
Carly Dominick-Sobol ’12 excel equally as Holy Cross’ last
line of defense.
All 20 Crusaders contribute in some way—even injured
goalie Lindsay Atkinson ’11, who opens the gate for her teammates, urging them on as they pour out from the lockers.
So The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pucks skate to the end
of an outstanding season. At times they hear the roar of the
crowd. For them, playing well is the only thing that matters.
And that is enough … for now.
NCAA Soccer Update
In December, the NCAA’s Division I
Committee on Infractions released its
report on a case that began when
Holy Cross self-reported a violation in
the men’s soccer program. The Committee accepted the College’s self-imposed
penalties,
including
the
forfeiture of two scholarships, and
added the standard minimum sanction of a two-year probation. Holy
Cross has never before been involved
in a major NCAA violation case, and
College President Rev. Michael McFarland, S.J., issued a letter to the
Holy Cross community expressing his
satisfaction with the swift and comprehensive response by the Athletic
Department.
The infractions were centered on
a number of impermissible telephone
calls made to high school studentathletes during a nearly four-year period (April 2004–June 2008). In its
findings, the NCAA noted that the violations were not intentional, but determined that the former men’s
soccer head coach failed to promote
an atmosphere of compliance and
that the College failed to monitor
telephone calls within the men’s soccer program adequately.
In his letter, Fr. McFarland also emphasized that compliance with NCAA
policies and regulations is and has always been a priority for the College
and its athletics program, and that as
a result of the investigation, monitoring systems have been revised.
John W. Gearan ’65 was an award-winning reporter and columnist
for the Worcester Telegram and Gazette for 36 years. He resides in
Rhode Island.
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Paul L. Davoren, D.D.S., writes
’67 that
he retired from private practice
Chairs Andrew J. McElaney Jr., John J.
McLaughlin Jr., John P. Sindoni
Wayne Cascio, professor of
management in the University of
Colorado-Denver Business School, writes
that he was awarded the Robert H.
Reynolds Chair in Global Leadership—the
first endowed chair in the business school;
the investiture took place in 2009. Michael
J. “Mike” Kamin notes that he is redeploying from Iraq after a one-year tour as adviser
to the Ministry of Defense. Class Co-Chairs
’68
Alfred J. Carolan Jr., John T. Collins
The One that Got Away
Photo courtesy of Edward Ludwig ‘73
and is now working part time at the VA
Medical Center in White River Junction,
Vt.—and, also, at a Federally Qualified
Health Center in Central Vermont, where
he oversees the dental clinic. Rev. Joseph
J. Koury notes that, after four years in
Belfast, Maine, as the administrator of St.
Francis of Assisi Parish, he relocated last
September to Windham, Maine, where he
now serves as administrator of Our Lady of
Perpetual Help Church and two neighboring churches—St. Joseph’s Church in
Bridgton and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Mission Church in Fryeburg; Fr. Koury adds
that, since retiring from teaching in the
Honors College of the University of
Maine-Orono, he can resume tribunal
work at the Diocese of Portland office. The
Oct. 27 edition of the Springfield (Mass.)
Republican newspaper included the announcement that Robert F. Kumor Jr. was
one of several judges recently selected by
the Massachusetts Judges Conference as a
recipient of its judicial excellence award;
selection is based on peer nomination and
a review by panels of senior judges. Appointed to the bench in 1990, Kumor had
served nine years as first justice of Springfield (Mass.) District Court; since 2005, he
had been a circuit district court judge in
Western Massachusetts, until his retirement last September. Charles W. Trombly
Jr. ’62 and Daniel J. Swords ’69 were also
recipients of this award. Timothy B.
McBride writes that he completed his
fourth year on the adjunct faculty of
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.,
teaching real estate finance in the McDonough School of Business; McBride adds
that he also serves as a member of the business school’s board of advisers. Class Co-
What brings Crusaders from three different decades together? Fishing, of course. Holy
Cross alumni (from left) David Grain ’84, Holy Cross Trustee Edward Ludwig ’73 and Bill
Maloney ’59 cast a few lines on Martha’s Vineyard this fall. Ludwig reports that “No fish
got hurt.”
C. Crowley, of Helena,
’69 Frank
Mont., writes that he has been se-
F. Kelly Jr. writes that he
’70 Bernard
is currently reviewing books for the
lected to “Super Lawyers” 2009 for the
Mountain States region. William J. “Bill”
Mostyn III notes that, since April 2008,
he has been serving as vice president and
corporate secretary for TIAA-CREF, New
York City, in its Boston office. The Oct. 27
edition of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican
newspaper included the announcement
that Daniel J. Swords was one of several
judges recently selected by the Massachusetts Judges Conference as a recipient of its
judicial excellence award; selection is
based on peer nomination and a review by
panels of senior judges. Swords currently
serves as First Justice of Hampden and
Berkshire County Juvenile Courts. Charles
W. Trombly Jr. ’62 and Robert F. Kumor Jr.
’67 were also recipients of this award. Class
Winthrop (Mass.) Sun Transcript newspaper
and, also, working part time as a concierge.
Timothy J. Yentsch notes that, after 32
years with the Small Business Administration, he began a career in banking; he currently serves as the chief credit officer at
Independence Bank in East Greenwich,
R.I. Class Co-Chairs Stephen J. Bier,
Co-Chairs David H. Drinan, James W. Igoe,
Robert G. Powderly
Thomas J. Neagle
J. Sullivan, M.D., writes
’72 Dennis
that he has been named chief of
surgery at Bridgton (Maine) Hospital.
Michael T. “Mike” Warshaw notes that
he joined the Red Bank, N.J., law firm
Zager Fuchs, PC, last January, after 20 years
as a solo practitioner. Class Co-Chairs
Richard J. Kenny, Allan F. Kramer II,
Richard J. Witry
K. Curran writes that he
’73 David
recently had his second wilderness
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Gov. Martin O’Malley
’76 Maryland
announced in December the ap-
Mission of Peace
Photo by Marcie Revens
pointment of John J. Nagle III as an associate justice to the Circuit Court for
Baltimore County; prior to his appointment, Nagle had served as president and a
litigation partner for the Maryland law firm
Bodie, Nagle, Dolina, Smith & Hobbs,
P.A., focusing on civil defense litigation
and corporate law. Class Chair Thomas E.
Ryan. Class Correspondent Thomas C.
Healey
Agnes “Maggie” Wilderotter
’77 Mary
writes that she was recently elected
to the board of directors of Procter and
Gamble—and, in addition, was recognized
as one of the top 50 women in business by
Fortune magazine. Class Co-Chairs Brian A.
Cashman, Kathleen T. Connolly
A. Burgner, D.M.D., writes
’78 Glenn
that he has opened a new office in
William ’62 and Caryl Plunkett P91 and James ’86 and Gina ’84 McCaffrey were among
25 people named “Ambassadors of Peace” by the Institute for International Sport at
the organization’s awards dinner, held this past fall in New York. Founded in 1986, the
Institute, which works to promote peace through athletics and the arts, will hold the
World Youth Peace Summit in the summer of 2011. The evening’s keynote speaker, Gen.
Colin Powell, described the event as “one of the most compelling peace initiatives I
have seen in years.” The Plunketts, shown here with Powell and their daughter, Kathleen P. O’Connor, at the fundraising event, helped launch one of the Institute’s first
projects by helping founder Dan Doyle and then Holy Cross head men’s basketball
coach, George Blaney ’61, raise millions of dollars for the construction of the Irish National Basketball Arena in Dublin.
adventure travel book published, Canoe
Trip: North to Athabasca (Hellgate Press,
2009); his first adventure book, Canoe Trip:
Alone in the Maine Wilderness, was published in 2002. Class Co-Chairs William F.
Bagley Jr., Philip J. Crowley
Alfred J. Castino writes that he
’74 retired
last year following a long career as an executive in high technology
and software businesses and is now spending time traveling, studying Italian and
photography, and continuing his athletic
pursuits of running and bicycling. James J.
Fox, M.D., writes that he was selected for
inclusion in Castle Connolly’s national
guide, America’s Top Doctors, 2009—noting
that this is the fourth time since 2005 that
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he received this honor. A board-certified
interventional cardiologist, Fox adds that
he currently serves as president of Florida
Cardiac Consultants—and that he has
been practicing cardiology in Sarasota
since 1992. Stephen R. “Steve” Wickson
writes that he is working as a therapist and
college counselor in Santa Monica, Calif.
Class Co-Chairs Paul J. Ballantine, Brian
R. Forts, Edward J. Sullivan
R. Hurst writes that he has
’75 Gary
been elected to the board of directors of his law firm Drew, Eckl & Farnham,
LLP, in Atlanta. Class Co-Chairs Joseph
W. Cummings, Joseph A. Sasso Jr.
Dartmouth, Mass. Daniel A. “Dan” Day
notes that he has been appointed director
of interactive media and audience development for The Modesto (Calif.) Bee. John A.
“Chip” Esper, M.D., and his wife, Kelly,
announce the adoption of four daughters
from Peru: Maria, age 16, Miley, 15, Clara,
11, and Jenny, 8. Thomas J. Solitario
writes that he recently started a new company, Blue Mobile Media, LLC, which provides “mobile marketing systems and
services for political campaigns.” Gary O.
Stankiewicz writes that he is in his 27th
year of employment at the Massachusetts
Mutual Life Insurance Company in Springfield, Mass., noting that he was recently
promoted to vice president in the U.S. Insurance Group, where he is head of information technology production services.
Class Co-Chairs Mark T. Murray, Michael
H. Shanahan, Anne Reilly Ziaja. Class Correspondent Roseann Fitzgerald
The law firm Weil, Gotshal &
’79 Manges,
LLP, announced that
Thomas C. Frongillo, a partner in its Boston
office, has been named co-chair of the firm’s
investigations and criminal defense practice.
Mary Kay Wall writes that she is a founding
partner of Latz &Wall, “a strategic leadership, fund development and communications firm,” serving nonprofit organizations
in the Chicago area. Class Co-Chairs
Glennon L. Paredes, Deborah A. Pelles
In Memoriam
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BERNARD F. CURRY
Bernard Curry died Oct. 16, 2009, at 91.
Born in New York City, Mr. Curry was a
graduate of Columbia University Law
School. He had been a member of the
President’s Council at Holy Cross and a
Holy Cross class agent. Mr. Curry is survived by a daughter; a son-in-law; a
granddaughter; and numerous nephews
and nieces. His brother was the late
Francis R. ’32.
MARTIN J. MORAGHAN JR.
Martin Moraghan, a longtime resident of
Litchfield, Conn., died Aug. 14, 2009, in
West Chester, Ohio, at 93. During his career, Mr. Moraghan had been a representative of the Equitable Life Assurance
Society for 50 years; he received the
company’s Distinguished Service Award
in 1985. Mr. Moraghan had also been a
burgess of Litchfield Borough, director of
the Litchfield Water Company and a lifelong parishioner of St. Anthony of Padua
Church in Litchfield. An accomplished
golfer, he had been a rules official at U.S.
Golf Association tournaments for 30
years—and had officiated as well at college tournaments. President of the Connecticut State Golf Association from
1977 to 1978 and its tournament director
for 25 years, Mr. Moraghan was inducted
into the Connecticut Golf Hall of Fame
in 1991 and the Litchfield Athletic Hall
of Fame in 2001. He had been a member
of the Country Club of Waterbury,
Conn., where he won the men’s club
championship twice, and the Litchfield
Country Club, where he had also been a
men’s champion. A major in the U.S.
Army Air Corps during World War II,
Mr. Moraghan was the director of ground
training at the Cadet Bombardier School
in Midland, Texas. He is survived by his
wife, Jane; a son; two daughters; four
grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
JOHN D. MOYNEHAN
John Moynehan died Nov. 11, 2009, at
his home in Johnstown, N.Y., at 92. Prior
to his retirement, Mr. Moynehan had
been a partner and the president, for
many years, of A. Frederick and Co., a
distributor of fuel oil products in New
York. Serving one year in the infantry
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and three and one-half years in the Army
Air Force, he had been a member of the
15th Air Force in the Mediterranean
theater and a ball turret gunner for more
than 50 missions over Germany. Mr.
Moynehan was a recipient of the American Defense Service Medal; the European-African-Middle Eastern (EAME)
Campaign Clusters with five Bronze
Stars; the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf
Clusters; the Distinguished Unit Badge;
and the Certificate of Commendation for
valor. He was a board director of both the
Johnstown YMCA—holding this post for
six years—and the Empire State Sand
and Gravel Association. Mr. Moynehan
was a parishioner of St. Patrick’s Church
in Johnstown. He had been a Holy Cross
class agent for many years. Mr. Moynehan is survived by two sons, including
David J. ’69; a daughter; and nephews
and nieces.
JOHN A. PIUREK
John Piurek, of West Haven, Conn., died
Dec. 3, 2009, at 94. A longtime coach,
tournaments director and sports official
in Connecticut, Mr. Piurek had been a
history teacher, coach and, for 16 years,
athletic director at West Haven High
School; he retired in 1981, following 36
years of service to the school. A foursport official, Mr. Piurek had served as
the president or commissioner of officiating groups for baseball, basketball, football and soccer. Active in the
Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic
Conference (CIAC), he had been the director or a consultant for numerous tournaments and sporting events over the
course of his career. Mr. Piurek was also
active in organizing the Connecticut
High School Coaches Association, serving as its second president in 1952. The
recipient of many honors from state and
national sports organizations, he was inducted into the National Federation of
State High School Associations Hall of
Fame in 1998—the first coach in Connecticut to be recognized in this way; in
2000 he was selected as a member of the
inaugural class to be inducted into the
Hall of Fame at West Haven High
School, where, in 1990, the baseball field
had been named after him. A three-sport
athlete at his alma mater Bulkeley High
School in Hartford, Mr. Piurek had been
a member of the varsity baseball team at
Holy Cross. Playing minor league baseball after college with the St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies, he had
been a scout for more than 40 years with
the Brooklyn Dodgers, San Francisco Giants and Seattle Mariners. Mr. Piurek
had been a Holy Cross class agent. He is
survived by his wife, Katherine “Rena”; a
son; two daughters; two stepchildren; a
sister; four grandchildren; and three
great-grandchildren.
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MARTIN C. ROTH
Martin Roth, of Rochester Hills, Mich.,
died Nov. 15, 2009, at 90. A World War
II veteran, Mr. Roth had served 22 years
in the Marine Corps, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. During his career, he had
also worked for Chrysler Defense and
General Dynamics. Mr. Roth’s community involvement included volunteering
at the Baldwin Soup Kitchen in Michigan. Mr. Roth is survived by his wife,
Chris; a daughter; three stepdaughters;
four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
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JOHN R. LYDDY, M.D.
John Lyddy, M.D., died Oct. 3, 2009, in
Bridgeport (Conn.) Hospital, at 90. A
longtime physician, Dr. Lyddy maintained
a private practice in obstetrics/gynecology
for many years in Stratford, Conn.; at the
start of his career, he had practiced general medicine in Bridgeport. Chairman of
the obstetrics/gynecology department and
chief of staff for many years at Bridgeport
Hospital, Dr. Lyddy had also been on the
faculty at Yale-New Haven and Bridgeport hospitals. A veteran, he had served
as a naval officer in all the theaters of war
during World War II; during the Korean
War, Dr. Lyddy was promoted to the rank
of lieutenant commander. He had been a
Holy Cross class agent. Involved in community and church activities, Dr. Lyddy
had pursued various interests as well, including carpentry, golf and gardening. He
is survived by his wife, Helen; a son; four
daughters, including Ann Marie ’83; two
sons-in-law; a brother, Gregory J., D.D.S.,
’52; a sister-in-law; five grandchildren;
and extended family. His brother was the
late Raymond C. ’47.
IN MEMORIAM
VINCENT J. MORETTI, D.D.S.
Vincent Moretti, of Cranston, R.I., died
August 25, 2009. Dr. Moretti is survived
by his wife, Carolina; two sons; and three
grandchildren.
JEREMIAH J. TWOMEY
Jeremiah Twomey died Nov. 24, 2009, at
Pomperaug Woods in Southbury, Conn.,
at 91. During his career, Mr. Twomey had
worked many years for Uniroyal Chemical, retiring in 1983. Receiving his bachelor of arts degree in chemistry from
Boston College, he earned his master’s
degree in chemistry at Holy Cross and,
subsequently, completed some additional
course work at Providence (R.I.) College.
Mr. Twomey is survived by nephews and
nieces.
Corps veteran, he flew 50 combat missions as a B-24 pilot in the Pacific theater during World War II. Mr. O’Connor
is survived by a son; two daughters, including Maureen ’77; a son-in-law; a
daughter-in-law; nine grandchildren, including Katharine O’Connor Lopez ’99;
and four great-grandchildren.
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WILLIAM H. DIAMOND
Thomas Brown died Oct. 23, 2009, in
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston,
at 89. A historian and longtime professor,
Mr. Brown had taught 23 years at the
University of Massachusetts-Boston,
prior to his retirement in 1988; he had
previously been a member of the faculty
at Notre Dame University in Indiana.
Mr. Brown was the author of Irish-American Nationalism, 1870-1890, and a co-author of the 1998 public television
documentary The Irish in America: Long
Journey Home. A Navy veteran, he was a
lieutenant commander and chief engineer aboard destroyers during World War
II. Mr. Brown received his bachelor’s degree from Boston College and a master’s
degree and Ph.D. in history from Harvard
University, Cambridge, Mass. He is survived by four sons; two daughters; and 11
grandchildren.
William Diamond, of Reading, Mass.,
died Dec. 13, 2009, at 87. A longtime attorney, Mr. Diamond had maintained a
private practice in Reading for 50 years;
at the start of his career, he practiced law
in New Bedford, Mass., and then joined a
small tort firm in Boston. Mr. Diamond
had served as president of the Middlesex
County Bar Association in the mid1980s. Active in local affairs, he had
been a member of the board of trustees of
the Reading Public Library; legal adviser
to the Wakefield (Mass.) Elks Club; and,
president, for several terms, of the Reading Rotary Club and the Reading Rifle &
Revolver Club. An Army Air Corps veteran, Mr. Diamond trained at the radio
school in Kansas City, Mo., and repaired
radios of the P-47 “Thunderbolt” fighter
aircraft. Serving in North Africa, Italy,
Corsica, Southern France and the
Rhineland region of Germany prior to
the end of World War II, he was a recipient of the Good Conduct Medal; the
Victory Medal; and the European-North
African-Middle Eastern Campaign
Medal. Mr. Diamond had been a Holy
Cross class agent. He is survived by his
wife, Marie; two sons, including William
H. Jr. ’78; two daughters; two sons-inlaw; a daughter-in-law; and five grandchildren.
JAMES L. O’CONNOR
REV. DANIEL J. GILMARTIN
James O’Connor, of Jupiter, Fla., died
Nov. 9, 2009, at 88. A graduate of Columbia Law School in New York City,
Mr. O’Connor had been a commercial
litigator in New York City for several
years before becoming general counsel of
the Ludlow Corp. in Needham Heights,
Mass.; in 1978, he relocated to Palm
Beach County, Fla., where he founded
The Storage Place Ltd. Mr. O’Connor
had been a member of the President’s
Council at Holy Cross. An Army Air
Rev. Daniel Gilmartin, a longtime priest
of the Archdiocese of Boston, died Oct.
8, 2009, at Carmel Terrace in Framingham, at 88. Prior to his retirement in
1996, Fr. Gilmartin had been the pastor
of St. Brendan’s Church in Bellingham
for 24 years; he then served many years as
senior priest at Assumption-St. Blaise
Church in Bellingham. Ordained to the
priesthood in 1946, Fr. Gilmartin began
his ministry at Blessed Sacrament Parish
in Walpole and St. John Church in
1942
THOMAS N. BROWN
Boston, prior to joining the faculty of St.
Sebastian Country Day School, then located in Newton, the following year.
During his tenure at St. Sebastian’s, he
had taught religion and mathematics for
almost 25 years and served 12 years as
coach of the basketball team. While undertaking this work, Fr. Gilmartin also
assisted at various locations in the archdiocese where he had assumed residency:
the Carroll School for the Blind, Newton; St. John’s Seminary, Brighton; and
the parishes of St. Joseph, Somerville, St.
Stephen, Boston, St. Mary of the Assumption, Brookline, and, for 19 years,
Sacred Heart in Watertown. He moved
to Carmel Terrace in March 2008.
THOMAS E. MEATH
Thomas Meath, of Queensbury, N.Y.,
died Aug. 30, 2009, in Glens Falls (N.Y.)
Hospital, at 88. Mr. Meath is survived by
his wife, Elizabeth; three sons; a daughter; three daughters-in-law; and nine
grandchildren.
MICHAEL G. O’NEIL
Michael “Jerry” O’Neil died Aug. 18,
2009, at his home in Akron, Ohio, at 87.
A corporate leader, civic activist and philanthropist, Mr. O’Neil had had a long
career with the General Tire & Rubber
Co. (GenCorp), which was founded by
his father in Akron in 1915. Beginning
work in the factory training program in
1946, he became president of the company in 1960, a position he held for 25
years. During his tenure, the company’s
business lines expanded to include polymers, movies, and, also, aerospace, military, automotive and other products; Mr.
O’Neil retired from the board of GenCorp in 1993. His community involvement included serving as chairman of
Goals for Greater Akron for 10 years;
trustee of Metro Parks for 19 years; chairman of the United Way/Red Cross campaign in 1955 and 1980; and board
director of St. Thomas Hospital and First
National Bank (First Merit). A veteran,
Mr. O’Neil had served with the Army
Air Corps during World War II. He had
been a member of the President’s Council at Holy Cross. Mr. O’Neil is survived
by his wife, Jean; 13 children, including
six adopted nephews and nieces; their
spouses; a stepdaughter; a sister; a
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brother-in-law, William M. Regan ’38;
and 14 grandchildren. His father was the
late William F. ’(19)07; and his brothers
were the late William M. ’34, Thomas F.
’37, John J. ’38 and Hugh F. ’40.
at Fordham University in New York City
and an adjunct professor of Christian
ethics in the theology department there.
He is survived by his wife, Claire; and a
sister.
CHARLES A. POLACHI
JOHN W. STODDER
Charles Polachi died Dec. 29, 2009, in
Falmouth (Mass.) Hospital, at 88. During
his career, Mr. Polachi had been employed by Witco Chemical in New York
City, undertaking extensive international
travel for the company. He had also been
chairman of the board of directors of the
PASA Group in Buenos Aires. A longtime resident of Pelham, N.Y., and a lifelong summer resident of Falmouth, Mr.
Polachi moved to East Falmouth following his retirement from Witco in 1986.
Commodore of the Falmouth Yacht
Club, he was a past president of the
Acapesket Improvement Association.
Mr. Polachi had served as a chemical
warfare analyst during World War II. He
had been a member of the President’s
Council at Holy Cross. Mr. Polachi is
survived by his wife, Elizabeth; three
sons, Charles A. Jr. ’75, Peter V. ’77 and
Steven F. ’78; three daughters; a son-inlaw; three daughters-in-law, including
Martha Johnson Polachi ’76; and 10
grandchildren, including Neala F. ’07 and
Christina E. ’11.
John Stodder died April 21, 2009, at his
home in Palos Verdes Estates, Calif., at
86. A retired investment banker, Mr.
Stodder had been the owner of the Stodder Company in Palos Verdes Estates for
30 years, assisting business owners, in
various capacities, with mergers and acquisitions. Vice chairman of Jostens, Inc.,
based in Minneapolis, he had also served
as director and an officer of Smith Barney & Co., of New York; Pennsylvania
Life Insurance Co. (now a Citigroup
unit) of Santa Monica, Calif.; the men’s
clothing manufacturer Palm Beach, Inc.,
of New York; Talley Industries Inc., of
Arizona; and A.G. Becker of Chicago.
Mr. Stodder had been a member of the
President’s Council at Holy Cross. He is
survived by his wife, Gay; five sons; a
brother; and eight grandchildren.
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JOHN V. BUCHER JR.
John Bucher, a longtime resident of Albany, N.Y., died Nov. 9, 2009, at 86. A
graduate of the Fordham University
School of Law in New York City, Mr.
Bucher had been employed by the court
of appeals and the attorney general before becoming president of the Legislative Index Company. He had been a
lector for many years at Holy Cross
Church in Albany. A veteran, Mr.
Bucher served in the Army during World
War II. He is survived by his wife, Patricia; four sons; four daughters-in-law; a
brother; and eight grandchildren.
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ROBERT O. JOHANN
Robert Johann died March 1, 2009, at
Morningside of Williamsburg in Virginia,
at 84. During his career, Mr. Johann had
been a professor of philosophy and letters
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ROBERT A. DEVLIN
Robert Devlin died Nov. 27, 2009, in
Port St. Lucie, Fla., at 84. Involved in
high school and college athletics programs for more than 40 years, Mr. Devlin
had most recently held the post of athletic director at Worcester State College,
from 1970 until his retirement in 1988;
serving as the tennis and golf coach during this time, he was twice named Division III Golf Coach of the Year.
Previously, Mr. Devlin had been the basketball coach and assistant football coach
at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, from
1965 until 1970. Beginning his career in
1946 at St. John’s High School, Shrewsbury, Mass., Mr. Devlin had served 19
years as the coach of football, basketball
and baseball. During his tenure, the
teams attained outstanding records and
won many Western Massachusetts, New
England Catholic and state tournaments,
as well as city and district titles. The recipient of numerous athletic awards, Mr.
Devlin was inducted into the St. John’s
High School, Worcester State College
and Massachusetts Coaches halls of fame.
In addition to coaching, he had owned
and operated Bob Devlin’s Sporting
Goods Co. in Worcester for 31 years.
After graduating from Holy Cross, Mr.
Devlin had earned a master’s degree at
Boston University and played semi-pro
basketball and baseball. He had also pursued his interests in golf and bridge for
many years. Mr. Devlin is survived by his
wife, Donna; a sister; three sisters-in-law;
two brothers-in-law; a nephew; three
nieces; nine grandnephews and grandnieces; and several cousins.
RICHARD H. JANSON
Richard Janson died July 5, 2009, in
Burlington, Vt., at 84. Professor of art
emeritus at the University of VermontBurlington, Mr. Janson had taught architectural history from 1967 until his
retirement in 1993; he served as chairman of the department from 1967 until
1977. Teaching at Wesleyan College and
Mount Holyoke College at the start of
his career, Mr. Janson became the director, in 1958, of the Fleming Museum, located on the campus of the University of
Vermont; he served in this capacity until
1977. A veteran, Mr. Janson had joined
the NROTC program following his high
school graduation—and was sent, first, to
Williams College, and, subsequently, to
the V-12 unit at Holy Cross. After receiving his bachelor of arts degree in
naval science from the College in 1946
and his commission as ensign, he served
in the Pacific at the Bikini Atoll aboard
the ship LCI-529, during the time of Operation Crossroads. Discharged from the
Navy in 1947, Mr. Janson returned to
Williams College where he earned a
bachelor’s degree in 1948 and completed
an additional year of postgraduate studies
in art history; Mr. Janson later pursued
his master of arts degree and Ph.D. at
Yale University. His interests included
sailing, repairing the Lake Champlain
shoreline, automobiles and travels to
Sweden. Mr. Janson is survived by his
wife, Marilyn Nacsin; two sons; two
daughters; a stepson; and 10 grandchildren.
GEORGE F. RODENBUSH JR.
George Rodenbush died Nov. 24, 2009,
at his home in South Yarmouth, Mass., at
84. Prior to his retirement in 1987, Mr.
Rodenbush had worked 38 years for
IN MEMORIAM
PAUL J. MARRKAND
NOVEMBER 20,2009
Holy Cross Archives
Retired Lt. Col. Paul J. Marrkand, USAF, former executive officer of the Air Force ROTC Unit at Holy Cross, died Nov. 20,
2009, at 89.
A 26-year veteran of the Air Force, Mr. Marrkand flew 33
combat missions as a bombardier in the European theater,
including the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. He had been a
member of the 448th Bombardment Group, 715 Bombardment Squadron, Crew 66, 8th Air Force, 8th Bomber Command, Second Division, 20th Combat Wing, and a recipient of
the Distinguished Flying Cross. Prior to his retirement from
military service in 1968, Mr. Marrkand completed a tour of
duty as head commander of the College Air Force ROTC Detachment 340; he had previously been stationed in Colorado,
Texas, Germany, California, England and Alabama.
Following his retirement from the Air Force, Mr. Marrkand pursued a career in business, settling in Grafton, Mass.,
and, later, St. Augustine, Fla. He was an active parishioner of
St. Philip Parish in Grafton, where he was chairman of the
Bishop’s Fund Committee and a lifelong member of the Holy
Name Society.
Mr. Marrkand was a 1947 graduate of the University of
Connecticut. He had been a member of the Military Officers
Association of America and a past president of the Grafton
Lions Club.
Mr. Marrkand is survived by his wife, Patricia; five children
and their spouses; and 12 grandchildren.
NYNEX (formerly New England Telephone) as a district sales manager; he was
a member of the Telephone Pioneers. A
longtime resident of Brockton, Mass., Mr.
Rodenbush relocated to South Yarmouth
following retirement. He had served in
the Navy during World War II, attaining
the rank of ensign. Mr. Rodenbush had
been a parishioner of St. Pius X Church
in South Yarmouth, Mass., and, formerly,
of Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Brockton. He is survived by three sons; two
daughters; two sons-in-law; two daughters-in-law; 10 grandchildren, including
Patrick N. ’08; two great-grandsons; and
several nephews and nieces.
well in numerous Housatonic League
track championships. Beginning his career at the Newton College of the Sacred
Heart in Newton, Mass., Mr. Simisky
subsequently taught chemistry and
physics at East Windsor (Conn.) High
School from 1958 to 1965. An active
member of St. Bridget Parish in
Cheshire, he was also a volunteer at the
Bradley Memorial campus of The Hospital of Central Connecticut in Southington. Mr. Simisky is survived by his wife,
Arlla; four sons; four daughters; four
sons-in-law; two daughters-in-law; 15
grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
PAUL J. SIMISKY SR.
1948
Paul Simisky, a longtime resident of
Cheshire, Conn., died Nov. 8, 2009.
Prior to his retirement in 1994, Mr.
Simisky had taught chemistry and
physics for 28 years at Cheshire High
School; the starter of the boys’ and girls’
track events at the high school for more
than 20 years, he had been involved as
JOHN F. BECKER
John Becker, of Cape Elizabeth, Maine,
died Dec. 21, 2009, at Maine Veterans’
Home in Scarborough, at 83. A longtime
research professional, Mr. Becker was
founder, in 1968, of the Becker Research
Corporation of Boston, which subsequently evolved into the Becker Institute
of Cape Elizabeth. Following graduation
from Holy Cross, he had worked 22 years
for the Opinion Research Corporation of
Princeton, N.J. A veteran, Mr. Becker
had served with the U.S. Army Air
Corps during World War II. Active in
alumni affairs, he had been a member of
the Bishop Healy Committee, board director of the alumni association, a member of the alumni board senate and chair
of the Class of 1948’s 50th reunion planning committee. Mr. Becker had been a
member of the President’s Council at
Holy Cross and a Holy Cross class agent
for many years. He was a recipient of the
alumni association’s In Hoc Signo award
in 1998. Mr. Becker is survived by his
wife, Patricia; a son; a daughter; a daughter-in-law; a sister; five grandchildren;
and a great-grandson.
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EDWARD T. DEEDY
Edward Deedy died Dec. 12, 2009, at
Rosewood Manor in Harwich, Mass. Active in the broadcasting field for 20 years,
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Mr. Deedy had managed several radio
stations, including WNEB and WORC
in Worcester. At the start of his career,
he had worked two years in retail and
three years in wholesale sales. He was
also a former Worcester city councilor
and vice mayor. Involved in numerous
civic and community organizations in
Worcester and on Cape Cod, Mr. Deedy
had been a trustee of the United Way of
Central Massachusetts; a member of the
public information committee of the
American Cancer Society, Worcester division; president of the Multiple Sclerosis
Society of Worcester County; and an incorporator of St. Vincent Hospital in
Worcester. In addition, he had been the
president of the Worcester Executives
Association; a member of the board of directors of Catholic Charities of the
Worcester Diocese and the diocesan
Board of Communications; and a director
of the Bancroft Automobile Club and
the American Automobile Association
of Worcester County. A Navy veteran of
World War II, Mr. Deedy had served as a
pharmacist mate second class with the
Fifth Marine Division in the Pacific theater. He is survived by three sons, including Kevin J. ’74; two daughters; two
brothers, including Justin F. ’53; nine
grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. His brother was the late John G. Jr.
’48.
JOHN J. O’MALLEY
John O’Malley died Dec. 10, 2009, at
UMass-Memorial Medical Center,
Worcester, at 82. An educator in the
Worcester public school system for 42
years, Mr. O’Malley had served, first, as a
teacher, and, then, as a principal, at the
Gage Street School, Worcester East Middle School and, most recently, Burncoat
Senior High School, where he worked
for 18 years. Following retirement, he
was employed for 12 years by the University of Massachusetts Medical School,
Worcester, in the Department of Family
Medicine and Community Health. A
veteran, Mr. O’Malley had been a medical corpsman in the Navy during World
War II. He is survived by his wife, Anne;
two sons, including Timothy J. ’80; four
daughters; two sons-in-law; a daughterin-law; his brother, Very Rev. Joseph M.
’47; and 11 grandchildren.
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FRANCIS J. CRANSTON
Francis Cranston died on Sept. 11, 2009,
at the McCarthy Care Center in Sandwich, Mass., at 80. A longtime attorney,
Mr. Cranston had maintained a private
practice in Barre, Mass. During his career, he had also been associated with the
firm Proctor, Healy & Cranston, which
subsequently became Healy & Cranston
in Worcester; Mr. Cranston later limited
his practice to Cranston & Cranston in
Barre. In addition, he was the town moderator in Barre from 1979 until his retirement to Cape Cod, Mass., in 1997.
Elected a corporator of the Barre Savings
Bank in 1962, Mr. Cranston had served
as a member of its board of trustees in the
1970s. In addition, he had been a
founder, director and president of the
Barre Boys Club and an honorary life
member of the Barre Historical Society.
Founder and first president of the Western Worcester County Bar Association,
Mr. Cranston had been a member of the
Massachusetts and American bar associations and a fellow of the Massachusetts
Bar Foundation. He was commissioned
an ensign in the Navy in 1950; serving as
a lieutenant aboard the USS Essex in the
Japan Sea during the Korean War, Mr.
Cranston retired from the Naval Reserve
in 1964. He was a parishioner of St.
Joseph’s Church in Barre and St. Elizabeth Seton Church in North Falmouth,
Mass. Mr. Cranston is survived by his
wife, June; four sons, including Francis J.
Jr. ’79; a daughter, Kathryn A. ’82; two
daughters-in-law; a brother, John H. ’59;
a sister-in-law; seven grandchildren; and
four great-grandchildren.
WILLIAM J. CRONIN
William Cronin died Sept. 20, 2009, in
Christopher House, Worcester, at 83.
During his career, Mr. Cronin had owned
and operated a family business and
worked as a real estate agent for many
years. A veteran, he served in the Asiatic-Pacific theater during World War II.
Mr. Cronin is survived by three sons; a
daughter-in-law; a sister; and a grandson.
GEORGE C. DAGHER JR.
George Dagher, a lifelong resident of
New York, died Oct. 10, 2009, at 82. An
entrepreneurial businessman, Mr. Dagher
had been the principal of Suffolk County
Roadways, American Automation Business Forms and North American Hovercraft Corp.; he was most recently a
consultant for the New York City Department of Transportation. A World
War II veteran, serving in Japan, Mr.
Dagher had been a member of the Naval
Reserve in the Korean War. He is survived by four sons, including John B. ’80;
two daughters; a son-in-law; three daughters-in-law; a sister; and seven grandchildren. His brother was the late William T.
’51.
HENRY P. DEMARCO
Henry DeMarco died Nov. 21, 2009.
Prior to his retirement in 1986, Mr. DeMarco had worked 31 years for Pratt &
Whitney Aircraft in Connecticut. A veteran, he had served as a second lieutenant in the Air Force; Mr. DeMarco
had also been a special agent of the FBI
under J. Edgar Hoover. His interests included fishing and piloting small aircraft.
Mr. DeMarco is survived by his wife, Barbara; three sons; three daughters; two
sons-in-law; two daughters-in-law; a sister; a nephew; and 11 grandchildren.
JOHN J. HARRINGTON, M.D.
John Harrington, M.D., of Lorain, Ohio,
died Oct. 31, 2009, at 82. Beginning the
practice of medicine in Lorain County in
1958, Dr. Harrington established the
anesthesia department at Lorain Community Hospital and served one term as
the chief of staff; he was board certified
in anesthesiology in 1961. In addition,
Dr. Harrington had taught CPR to the
hospital nurses and local firemen for several years at the Lorain County Community College in Elyria. Active on many
hospital committees, he had been a
member of local, state and national medical and professional societies. An Army
veteran, Dr. Harrington served in Battery
A, 15th Field Artillery, 2nd Infantry Division, at Fort Lewis, Wash., during
World War II. His interests included
woodworking, fishing, model shipbuilding and military history. Dr. Harrington is
survived by his wife, Carol; two sons; four
daughters; three sons-in-law; two daughters-in-law; two stepchildren; two sisters;
13 grandchildren; a nephew; and a niece.
IN MEMORIAM
RICHARD M. REGAN
WILLIAM T. MITCHELL
Richard Regan died Dec. 22, 2009, at his
home in Westwood, Mass., at 81. A native of Somerset, Mass., Mr. Regan was a
member of the Naval ROTC program at
Holy Cross and served as a lieutenant in
the Navy during the Korean War. Subsequent to the war, he received his degree
from the Boston College School of Law
in 1956. He began his career in labor relations with the General Tire & Rubber
Company in Marion, Ind., before returning to New England. A longtime resident
of Hingham, Mass., and Oak Bluffs,
Mass., Mr. Regan was employed for 22
years with State Street Bank Corp., before retiring as vice president of human
resources in 1991. He and his wife, the
late M. Jayne (Mycroft), were longtime
members of St. Paul’s Parish in Hingham
where Jayne taught at the parish school.
He is survived by two sons, including
Holy Cross athletics director Richard M.
Jr. ’76; two daughters, Mary R.’77 and
Ann P. ’80; a brother, John M. ’55; and
10 grandchildren, including Deirdre M.
’06. His father was the late Harold J. ’17.
William Mitchell died Oct. 14, 2009, at
Brigham and Women’s Hospital in
Boston, at 80. Prior to his retirement, Mr.
Mitchell had been a New England seacoast and Boston Harbor pilot for 40
years; beginning his apprenticeship with
the Boston Harbor pilots in 1954, he became a full pilot in 1963. Mr. Mitchell
was president of the Boston Harbor Pilots
Association from 1979 to 1983. A veteran, he had served in the Army from
1952 to 1954, attaining the rank of captain. During his lifetime, Mr. Mitchell
had also traveled extensively. He is survived by his wife, Mary; a daughter; a sister; and several nephews.
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WALTER T. GORMAN
Walter Gorman, of Binghamton, N.Y.,
died Oct. 31, 2009, at 83. A longtime attorney and judge in New York, Mr. Gorman had most recently been a State
Supreme Court judge, Court of Claims,
serving in New York City, from 1974
until 1979, and, then, in Syracuse, until
his retirement in 1992; he was elected to
two terms as a Binghamton County
Court judge, in 1965 and 1969. At the
start of his career, Mr. Gorman had been
an associate with the law firm Hinman,
Howard and Kattell in Binghamton; an
assistant district attorney for Broome
County; and a partner in Gorman, Gorman & Kearing. A veteran, he had
served in the Marine Corps from 1946 to
1947. Mr. Gorman had been a member of
St. Patrick’s Church in Binghamton. He
is survived by his wife, Joanne; three
sons, including Thomas W. ’81; four
daughters; four sons-in-law; two daughters-in-law; a brother-in-law; two sistersin-law; 12 grandchildren; and nephews
and nieces.
J. PAUL SINNOTT JR.
J. Paul Sinnott, of New Milford, Conn.,
and, formerly, of Katonah, N.Y., died
Dec. 11, 2009, in New Milford, at 80.
During his career, Mr. Sinnott had
worked many years in the retail industry—first, at F.W. Woolworth, and, subsequently, as the longtime owner and
manager of Murray’s 5 and 10 in Chappaqua, N.Y.; he later served as manager
of the toy department at the Caldor Department Store in Peekskill, N.Y. Mr.
Sinnott’s interests included repairing
antique clocks. He is survived by a son;
two daughters; a son-in-law; a daughterin-law; and two grandchildren.
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J. BRUCE BUCKLEY
J. Bruce Buckley, of Viera, Fla., and, formerly, of Port Washington, N.Y., died
Oct. 11, 2009, at 79. During his career,
Mr. Buckley had worked many years for
Citibank and, most recently, for the law
firm Cullen and Dykman LLP, in its Garden City, N.Y., office; he retired to Viera
in 2004. A veteran, Mr. Buckley had
served in the Army during the Korean
War. He is survived by his wife, Marilyn;
a son; two daughters; two sons-in-law;
nine grandchildren; nephews, Carl E. ’79
and Kevin C. ’83; and nieces. His brother
was the late Carl E. ’45.
GEORGE H. CRAEMER JR.
George Craemer, most recently of Torrington, Conn., died Sept. 19, 2009, at
80. Involved in the construction business
for many years, Mr. Craemer had worked
10 years for O & G Industries Inc., based
in Torrington, prior to his retirement.
Employed by George L. Hickey Inc. in
Stamford, Conn., for 17 years at the beginning of his career, he subsequently
worked seven years for the Horn Construction Co. in Hartford, Conn., before
joining Morganti Construction. Following retirement, Mr. Craemer drove children with special needs for the Miller
Transportation Co. of Avon, Conn., and
the Glastonbury (Conn.) school system.
A member of the Naval Reserve, he had
also served three years in the U.S. Marine Corps, attaining the rank of first
lieutenant. Mr. Craemer had been a
member of the varsity baseball team at
his alma mater the Kingswood School in
West Hartford—and, in addition, had
played ball for the American Legion. A
tennis enthusiast, he was a member of
the Golf Club of Avon and the Stamford
Yacht Club. Mr. Craemer is survived by
his wife, Helen; three sons; five daughters; four sons-in-law; three daughters-inlaw; numerous grandchildren; two
great-grandchildren; two brothers-in-law;
and three sisters-in-law. His brother was
the late Frank D. ’54.
LOUIS J. RAUCHENBERGER JR.
Louis Rauchenberger died Nov. 22, 2009,
at 79. During his career, Mr. Rauchenberger had worked for CBS, Inc., in New
York City; he retired as treasurer, after 35
years of service. Mr. Rauchenberger was a
Navy veteran of the Korean War. He is
survived by his wife, Elaine; four sons, including Louis ’84; two daughters, Mary
’82 and Catherine A. Conley ’91; and 10
grandchildren.
R. PAUL ROY
R. Paul Roy died Dec. 17, 2009, at his
home in Tyngsboro, Mass., at 80. During
his career, Mr. Roy had worked for
Sanders Associates, Inc., a Lockheed
Martin Company, retiring in 1990 following 22 years of service as a supervisor
of contract administration. He had previously been associated with the family
business, Bourget Package Store, in
Lawrence, Mass. Commissioned an ensign in the Navy, Mr. Roy served in the
Korean War, from 1952 to 1954, aboard
the USS J. Douglas Blackwood. He had
been a parishioner at St. Rita’s Church in
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Lowell, Mass. Mr. Roy’s interests included gardening and traveling. He is survived by three sons; a daughter; a
son-in-law; three daughters-in-law; three
brothers; a brother-in-law; three sistersin-law; 10 grandchildren; nephews;
nieces; and cousins.
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JOHN P. BURKE
John Burke died Nov. 30, 2009, at his
home in Dallas, at 78. Active in the
banking industry, Mr. Burke had most recently held the post of commissioner of
the State of Connecticut Department of
Banking, from 1995 until his retirement
in 2004; he had previously been the president and chief executive officer of Bristol
(Conn.) Savings Bank. Employed by IBM
in the Waterbury, Conn., area for several
years at the start of his career, Mr. Burke
subsequently began a 26-year tenure with
Centerbank, where he served eight years
as the company’s president and chief executive officer. An ex officio member of
the Board of the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority, he had been a board director of the Community Economic
Development Fund Foundation and a
member of the Connecticut Economic
Conference Board. In addition, Mr. Burke
was a past chairman and member of the
board of the Conference of State Bank
Supervisors and a member of its International, Legislative and Bylaws committees; he was chairman as well of the
former Connecticut Savings Bank Association and a director of the Savings Bank
Life Insurance Company. Mr. Burke’s
civic involvement included serving as a
board member of Waterbury Hospital,
board director of the Waterbury Chamber
of Commerce and a board member of St.
Mary’s Hospital Foundation. A member
of the board of both the Teikyo Post College Foundation and the Teikyo Post University in Waterbury, he had also been a
member of the finance committee of The
Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. Mr. Burke was a parishioner of St.
John of the Cross Church in Middlebury,
Conn. A veteran, he had served in the
Army during the Korean War. Mr. Burke
is survived by his wife, Carolyn Pool; a
son; a daughter; a son-in-law; a sister-inlaw; three grandchildren; and several
nephews and nieces.
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ROBERT E. CAHILL SR.
Robert Cahill died Dec. 14, 2009, at the
Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care in
Maryland, at 77. Active for many years
in the field of law, Mr. Cahill had been a
judge of the Circuit Court for Baltimore
County, from 1990 until his retirement in
2002. Joining the Baltimore firm Melnicove, Kaufman, Weiner and Smouse in
1963, he maintained a private practice
there until 1990 when he became associated with the Towson, Md., firm Nolan,
Plumhoff & Williams. A 1956 graduate
of Georgetown University Law School in
Washington, D.C., Mr. Cahill began his
career as an assistant U.S. attorney for
the District of Maryland and, subsequently, as a senior trial attorney in the
tax division of the U.S. Department of
Justice under then Attorney General
Robert F. Kennedy. Following his retirement from the Circuit Court, he continued working as a settlement judge. A
fellow of the American College of Trial
Lawyers, Mr. Cahill had served as president of the Bar Association of Baltimore
City and chairman of its Ethics Committee; two-term board governor of the
Maryland State Bar Association and
chairman of the Litigation Section
Council and Judicial Selection and
Tenure committees; and longtime member of the Maryland State Bar Character
Committee. In addition, he had been a
board member of the Patuxent Institution in Jessup, Md.; a member of the
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick and the Ancient Order of Hibernians; and a founding member of Eagle’s Nest, a historic
home located in Phoenix, Baltimore
County. Mr. Cahill belonged to the
Church of the Immaculate Conception
in Towson. He had been a Holy Cross
class agent and, as a student, a member of
the College varsity football team. Mr.
Cahill is survived by his wife, Patricia;
four sons; a daughter; and 11 grandchildren.
JAMES M. CURLEY
James Curley, a longtime resident of
Shrewsbury, Mass., died Sept. 18, 2009,
in the Rose Monahan Hospice, Worcester, at 78. Prior to his retirement, Mr.
Curley had served 15 years as the national sales manager for the Weetabix
Food Co.; previously, he was the Eastern
regional sales manager for the R.J.
Reynolds Food Co. and a vice president
of sales for the Campbell Soup Co. Mr.
Curley had been a parishioner of St. Joan
of Arc Parish in Worcester where he was
an usher and a volunteer with the St.
Vincent de Paul Society; in 2006, the
diocesan St. Vincent de Paul Society
honored Mr. Curley with its “Top Hat
Award.” An accomplished golfer, he had
been a member of the Pleasant Valley
Country Club in Sutton, Mass., and a
founding member of the Sterling (Mass.)
National Country Club. At Holy Cross,
Mr. Curley had played on the freshman
baseball team and took part, for four
years, in the intramural sports program.
A member of the College ROTC unit, he
served two years of active duty as a commissioned officer in the Marine Corps
and additional years in the Reserves, attaining the rank of captain. Mr. Curley is
survived by his wife, Ann; a son; two
daughters; two sons-in-law; a daughterin-law; three brothers; two sisters; five
grandchildren; three great-grandchildren;
and many nephews and nieces.
JOHN F. MONAHAN
John Monahan, of East Harwich, Mass.,
died Sept. 3, 2009, in the Kindred Hospital at MetroWest Medical Center, Natick, Mass., at 78. Prior to his retirement,
Mr. Monahan had been a corporate attorney in the defense industry. Commissioned an ensign in the Navy in 1956, he
served three years of active duty, attaining the rank of lieutenant junior grade.
Mr. Monahan had been a member of
Holy Redeemer Parish in Charlton,
Mass., where he served as an usher. He is
survived by a daughter; a son-in-law; and
two grandchildren. His father was the
late Francis A. ’16 and his brother was
the late Richard J. ’47.
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ANTHONY F. BELLUCCI
Anthony Bellucci, of Port Washington,
N.Y., died on Sept. 12, 2009. A graduate
of St. John’s University School of Law,
Mr. Bellucci had belonged to the Nassau
County and Queens County bar associations. He was also a member of the Republican Club and the Cellini Lodge of
the Sons of Italy in America. Mr. Bellucci had served in the U.S. Army Re-
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serve. He is survived by his longtime
companion, Lisa Mai; a son; a daughter; a
brother; a brother-in-law; and nephews
and nieces.
MONSIGNOR JOHN C. WEIMER
Monsignor John Weimer died Oct. 1,
2009, in Sisters Hospital, Buffalo, N.Y.,
at 76. A longtime priest of the Diocese of
Buffalo, Fr. Weimer had worked in campus ministry for 35 years; during his long
tenure at the State University College at
Buffalo, he had also taught courses in the
New Testament and assisted in establishing the college’s religious studies program
in the 1980s. Ordained to the priesthood
in 1958, Fr. Weimer had been a teacher
at the former Bishop Turner High School
in Buffalo prior to his appointment as assistant moderator of the Newman Club
at the University of Buffalo in 1967. During his ministry, Fr. Weimer had taught
theology as well at Canisius and D’Youville colleges in Buffalo and homiletics at
Christ the King Seminary, East Aurora,
N.Y. In addition, he had served as director of the diocese’s continuing formation
program for priests and, as chair, for two
terms, of the Council of Priests. At the
time of his retirement in 2003, Fr.
Weimer was awarded the President’s
Medal for Distinguished Service to Buffalo State College; following retirement,
he continued to teach college-level
courses and to provide weekend assistance at St. Joseph-University Church in
Buffalo and at St. John the Baptist
Church in the Town of Tonawanda, N.Y.
Fr. Weimer had been a Holy Cross class
agent. He is survived by three nephews; a
niece; 10 grandnephews and grandnieces;
and cousins.
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JOHN G. GRIFFIN SR.
John Griffin died Sept. 7, 2009, at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in
New York, at 76. During his career, Mr.
Griffin had worked 33 years for Farm
Credit Banks of Springfield (Federal Land
Bank of Springfield) in Massachusetts;
joining the company as a corporate attorney, he served as assistant general counsel
from 1975 until his retirement in 1995.
Receiving his degree from the New England School of Law in Boston, Mr. Griffin
had practiced with a law firm in Spring-
field prior to joining Farm Credit Banks. A
resident of Longmeadow, Mass., for almost
40 years, he relocated with his wife to
Sarasota, Fla., in 2000; Mr. Griffin had
been a longtime parishioner of St. Mary’s
Church in Longmeadow. He had been a
Holy Cross class agent. Mr. Griffin is survived by his wife, Bernice; a son; three
daughters, including Maura E. ’89; a sonin-law; a daughter-in-law; a sister; three
brothers-in-law; two sisters-in-law; three
grandchildren; two cousins and their husbands; and other extended family.
GEORGE G. MCMANUS JR.
George McManus, most recently of Hallandale Beach, Fla., and, formerly, of
Madison and East Haven, Conn., died
Sept. 27, 2009, in Peregrines Landing on
the Shoreline, Clinton, Conn., at 76.
During his career, Mr. McManus had
been a probate judge, District of Madison, for many years. A member of the
board of directors of the National College of Probate Judges, he had also been
active in numerous town and civic organizations, including the Madison Rotary
Club, which honored him with its Paul
Harris Fellowship Award. Mr. McManus
had served in the U.S. Army Reserve. He
is survived by a son.
1956
JOSEPH P. CRAUGH JR.
Joseph Craugh died Sept. 3, 2009, at
Pine Run Community in Doyleston, Pa.,
at 74. An attorney, Mr. Craugh had
served 28 years as a vice president and
general counsel with the Harleysville
(Pa.) Mutual Insurance Co., prior to his
retirement. Previously, he had worked for
the National Grange Mutual Insurance
Co. in Keene, N.H., and the Utica Mutual Insurance Co. in New York. Mr.
Craugh was a former chairman of the Republican Party in Utica, N.Y., and
Keene, and was, also, a Boy Scout leader
in Keene. He had been a parishioner at
St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Lansdale, Pa. Mr. Craugh is survived by his
wife, Ellen; a son; a daughter; a daughterin-law; a sister; a brother-in-law; and
three grandchildren. His father was the
late Joseph P. Sr. ’14.
JOHN A. LAWLER III
John Lawler, of Wellesley Hills, Mass.,
died on Sept. 16, 2009. Involved for
many years in the investment sales and
fund management field, Mr. Lawler had
most recently served as president of the
Lawler Investment Co.; previously, he
had opened and operated the Boston offices of McDonald & Co. and Wheat,
First Securities, Inc. Mr. Lawler began his
career with the Pittston-Clinchfield Coal
Company in Cleveland. For more than
30 years, he was a board member and
supporter of St. Sebastian’s School in
Needham, Mass. Mr. Lawler had been a
member of the President’s Council at
Holy Cross and a Holy Cross class agent.
He is survived by his wife, Julie Anne;
three sons, including Joseph M. ’85 and
Matthew J. ’87; four daughters, including
Amy S. ’83; four sons-in-law; three
daughters-in-law, including Jane G. ’85; a
brother; two sisters; seven grandsons; and
10 granddaughters.
PAUL JAY WHALEN
Paul Jay Whalen, a lifelong resident of
White Plains, N.Y., died Nov. 7, 2009, at
76. During his career, Mr. Whalen had
been the owner of a service station and,
also, an employee of the city of White
Plains. He was a parishioner of Our Lady
of Sorrows Church. A veteran, Mr.
Whalen had served in the Air National
Guard, 152nd Tactical Control Group—
stationed in Mannheim, Germany, from
1961 to 1962, during the Berlin crisis. He
is survived by his wife, Ruth; a son; three
daughters; two sons-in-law; a daughterin-law; three brothers, including Robert
E., M.D., ’52; and nine grandchildren.
1957
EDWARD D. BARRY
Edward Barry, of Minnesota, died Nov. 7,
2009, at 75. During his career, Mr. Barry
worked at the original Bookcase, J.D.
Holzerman’s and the U.S. Postal Service.
He is survived by two sons; a daughterin-law; two brothers; a sister; a brotherin-law; and a sister-in-law.
RAYMOND G. GRAHAM
Raymond Graham, of Charleston, S.C.,
died Oct. 18, 2009, at 74. Prior to his retirement in 2000, Mr. Graham had
served 24 years as the director of emergency medical services in Charleston
County, S.C. Named the state EMS Di-
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survived by a
nephew, Joseph
Desautels, and a
niece, Susan Majava.
Fr. Desautel’s
funeral was held
Feb. 25, at the
Chapel of the
Holy Spirit, Campion Center, followed by burial at
Holy Cross.
Paul O. LeClerc
’63, one of the
many
students
whom Fr. Desautels had mentored during his tenure at Holy
Cross, offered a eulogy at the funeral Mass for his former
professor. (LeClerc, a noted French scholar, has served for 16
years as president of the New York Public Library. On the occasion of Fr. Desautels’ 50th anniversary at Holy Cross, he
sent a glowing testimony of his former teacher who helped
convince him to study French and attend graduate school
at Columbia University.) Following is an excerpt of his remembrance:
“Fr. Desautels’ teaching changed my life, but it did so not
so very much because of what he taught, but how he taught
it. What made him truly singular in my life as a student was
his unalloyed love of his subject—the French language and
its use in literary expression—and the passionate commitment he had to make his students appreciate, at a minimum, French culture, or, ideally, learn to love it, as he did.
Losing this exceptional man from our lives, as we all
have, brings us great sadness. But what gives me a certain
measure of solace is the fact that I was able, during our visits and in the letters we exchanged over the last 20 years or
so, to have had a number of chances to tell him just how
grateful I was for the gifts he gave me: inspiration, motivation, love of the same subject he loved and an appetite for
continual personal growth. In other words, I had the chance
to say that magic phrase to him: ‘Your teaching changed my
life.’”
Paul LeClerc has kindly allowed us to share the entirety
of his moving eulogy for his mentor and friend online. You
may read it by visiting Web exclusives at holycross.edu/
magazine.
Photo courtesy of Campion House
Rev. Alfred Roger Desautels, S.J., professor emeritus of
French at the College of the Holy Cross, author and scholar,
died on Feb. 22, 2010, at the Campion Center in Weston,
Mass. He was 92.
Fr. Desautels was born in Fall River, Mass., the 11th of 12
children of Joseph and Regina (Pain) Desautels. He attended
Assumption Preparatory School in Worcester and completed
two years at Assumption College prior to entering the Society of Jesus in 1937. After completing his undergraduate
studies he taught French at Fairfield Preparatory School in
Connecticut for two years before earning a master’s degree
in French at Fordham University in 1947. He completed his
theology studies at Weston College and was ordained by
then-Archbishop Richard Cushing on June 17, 1950. Fr. Desautels continued his studies in Europe, first in Florence
(1950-51), and then at the University of Paris. He pronounced his final vows as a Jesuit in Madrid on Aug. 15,
1954.
Extremely proud of his French heritage and an accent
honed to perfection at the Sorbonne where he received his
Ph.D., Fr. Desautels assumed the chairmanship of the department of modern languages at Holy Cross in 1955. A
beloved and highly respected teacher whose career at Holy
Cross stretched over the next 50 years, he helped pioneer
the launch of the language laboratory at Holy Cross in the
early 1960s. In 1956 the Jesuit Historical Institute in Rome
published Fr. Desautels’ Les Mémoires de Trévaux, one of the
first volumes in a distinguished series of historical and literary studies. Over the years he devoted himself to the study
of French existentialism, and he contributed to the journal
of the American Association of Teachers of French. Fr. Desautels’ contribution to French culture and letters was recognized by the French government. In 1966 he was awarded
the rank of Chevalier in the Order of the Academic Palms
(the Ordre des Palmes Académiques had been created by
Napoleon). Then, in 1978, the French ambassador informed
him that he had been promoted to Officier. He wore these
awards on his lapel proudly. When French President Valéry
Giscard d’Estaing visited Holy Cross, and Fr. Desautels had
the honor of welcoming him, his eye was drawn immediately to the rosette identifying Fr. Desautels as Officier. The
president complimented him, saying that it was he who was
honored by the welcome of such a distinguished academic.
A lifelong lover of opera, Fr. Desautels also relished the
study of Russian, which continued to engage him almost to
the end of his life.
In addition to his many Jesuit brothers, Fr. Desautels is
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rector of the Year, Mr. Graham was a recipient of the Warren D. McBride Memorial Award and the Charleston
Medical Society EMS Award of Excellence; in 2002, the Raymond G. Graham
EMS Education Center in Charleston
was dedicated in his honor. An Army
veteran, Mr. Graham had worked in
counterintelligence and, then, in the
Central Intelligence Agency. He is survived by his wife, Jane; two sons; a
daughter; a son-in-law; a daughter-inlaw; a stepdaughter and her husband; and
a granddaughter.
ROBERT C. MCADAM
Robert McAdam, most recently of
Mount Pleasant, S.C., died Oct. 1, 2009,
at 74. Prior to his retirement, Mr.
McAdam had worked 45 years in the
textile industry in New York City, which
included travel to Central and South
America. As a resident of Essex Fells,
N.J., he had been a member of the Town
Council, the fire commissioner and a volunteer fireman. Relocating to Mount
Pleasant in 1993, Mr. McAdam opened a
retail store, Worthwhile, in Charleston,
with his daughter; he was appointed to
the board of the nonprofit anti-litter organization Palmetto Pride by the governor of South Carolina. Mr. McAdam had
been a parishioner of Our Lady of the
Blessed Sacrament Church in Roseland,
N.J., and Christ Our King Church in
Mount Pleasant. He had been a Holy
Cross class agent; as a student at Holy
Cross, Mr. McAdam had served four
years as co-manager of the varsity football team. He is survived by his wife, Ben
Nita; a son; a daughter; a son-in-law; a
daughter-in-law; two sisters; four grandchildren; two nephews; and two nieces.
counting and auditing standards for public companies in the United States and
for certified public accountants working
in government; Mr. Moraglio also oversaw the drafting of the AICPA Accounting and Audit Guide. He was co-author,
with Harry D. Kerrigan, of the book, The
Federal Budget and Financial System: A
Management Perspective, published in
1986. In addition, Mr. Moraglio taught
20 years at American University, Washington, D.C., beginning in the 1980s; following his retirement from the AICPA,
he taught accounting and auditing at
George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and George Mason University, in Fairfax, Va., where he was twice
honored by the Beta Alpha Psi fraternity
with its Phillip A. Blanchard Award for
Excellence in Undergraduate Education.
Mr. Moraglio had also worked for Singleton Associates, LLC, an accounting consultancy based in McLean, Va. Beginning
his career as a certified public accountant
in 1960 with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell &
Co. in New York City, he had served in
the capacities of senior auditor and staff
consultant; Mr. Moraglio then held the
post of assistant treasurer in the New
York City office of the Bangor Punta
Alegre Sugar Corporation before joining
the AICPA. A veteran, he served three
years in the U.S. Coast Guard, attaining
the rank of lieutenant junior grade. Mr.
Moraglio had been a longtime, active
parishioner of Our Lady of Good Counsel
Church in Vienna. He had played softball with the Northern Virginia Senior
Softball organization of Fairfax County.
Mr. Moraglio is survived by his wife,
Carol; a son, Leonard J. ’91; two daughters; a sister; and three grandchildren.
1959
JOSEPH F. MORAGLIO
ALBERT E. NEVINS JR.
Joseph Moraglio died Nov. 29, 2009, at
Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church,
Va., at 73. Prior to his retirement in
1995, Mr. Moraglio had been an executive for almost 20 years with the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountant (AICPA) in Washington,
D.C. Vice president of the association’s
federal government division, he served as
a liaison between the accounting profession and governmental bodies. His work
involved developing and improving ac-
Albert Nevins, of Marco Island, Fla., and
West Hartford, Conn., died Sept. 30,
2009, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital,
Boston, at 71. A longtime attorney, Mr.
Nevins had maintained a private practice
for more than 43 years, specializing in
criminal defense and general litigation.
Prior to his retirement in 2006, he had
been a senior partner in the Hartford law
firm Nevins & Nevins, which he had
founded with his brother, Richard ’67, in
1979; his niece, Kathleen, later joined
the firm and, since Mr. Nevins’ retirement, continues to lead the practice,
which focuses on general and small business law. A 1962 graduate of the Boston
College School of Law, Mr. Nevins began
his career in public law as a prosecuting
attorney for the Circuit Court in Hartford, from 1966 to 1970; subsequently
serving as a special prosecutor for the city
of Hartford in Connecticut’s first housing
court, from 1970 to 1974, he had also
been an assistant corporation counsel for
the city, representing the Hartford Board
of Education—and had held special positions for Hartford, including counsel to
the City Council’s hearings, in 1970, on
the use of deadly force. Mr. Nevins had
been a member of the Hartford County
and Massachusetts bar associations. A
Eucharistic Minister, cantor and an attorney for the Maryheart Crusaders, he had
been active as well in the Marriage Encounter and Cursillo movements and an
advocate for the Holy Apostles Seminary, Birthright, Food Share and other
charitable organizations. Mr. Nevins’ interests included golf, gardening and following Boston professional sports teams.
He is survived by his wife, Gail; two sons,
including Mark D. ’86; two daughters-inlaw, including Ndingara (Nicole)
Ngardingabe ’86; three brothers, including Richard P. ’67; a sister; two grandchildren; and many nephews and nieces.
(The family also acknowledges the birth of
two additional grandchildren, just months
after Mr. Nevins’ passing.)
1960
WILLIAM E. KEEGAN III
William Keegan, of Wilmington, Del.,
died July 9, 2009, at 70. During his career, Mr. Keegan had worked many years
in organizational development for the
E.I. Dupont Co. in Wilmington; following his retirement, he continued to serve
as a consultant for several years. A Navy
veteran, Mr. Keegan served aboard the
USS Butternut and attained the rank of
lieutenant. Active in a variety of pursuits
including music, photography, travel and
motorcycles, he had been involved with
Creative Grandparenting Inc. in Wilmington as well other mentoring organizations—and had served as a mentor to
children in the Wilmington Public
Schools. A member of the marching
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band and Glee Club at Holy Cross, Mr.
Keegan had also played on the College
lacrosse team. He is survived by a son;
three sisters; two nephews; a niece; three
grandnephews; and a grandniece. His father was the late W. Edward ’34.
1964
JEFFREY A. BANDROWSKI
Jeffrey Bandrowski died Oct. 30, 2009, in
Atlanta, at 67. Mr. Bandrowski received
his M.B.A. from Seton Hall University,
South Orange, N.J. A Navy veteran, he
had served in Vietnam. Mr. Bandrowski
had been a co-captain of the swim team
at Holy Cross. He is survived by his wife,
Wendy; a son; two daughters; two sonsin-law; a daughter-in-law; his father; a
brother; three granddaughters; and many
nephews, nieces and cousins.
ALEX C. VELTO
Alex Velto died Dec. 17, 2009, at his
home in Watertown, N.Y., at 68. Involved for many years in community outreach efforts, Mr. Velto had most recently
served as the executive director of the
Northern New York Community Foundation in Watertown; prior to joining the
Foundation in 1992, he had served six
years as the director of planned giving at
St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y.
Following graduation, Mr. Velto had
worked for the Chicago Commission on
Youth Welfare and, subsequently, as director of the Area Services Project, operated by Catholic Charities of Chicago. In
1972, he accepted the position of director of the Watertown office of Catholic
Charities for the Diocese of Ogdensburg,
a position that he held for 14 years. During his career, Mr. Velto had also been a
board director of the North Country
Children’s Clinic, the New York State
Rural Housing Coalition in Albany,
N.Y., and the Housing Assistance Council in Washington, D.C.; in 1978, he was
appointed to a statewide advisory council
to the state Department of Social Services. A canoeing and hiking enthusiast,
Mr. Velto had served on the boards of the
Adirondack and Central New York chapters of the The Nature Conservancy; he
was also a trustee of the Adirondack
Land Trust and a founding member of
the Black River chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club. Mr. Velto is sur-
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vived by his wife, Jeanne; two sons; a
daughter-in-law; two grandchildren;
aunts; nephews and nieces; and cousins.
1965
PETER J. TRAINOR
Peter Trainor died Sept. 6, 2009, at his
home in Leominster, Mass., at 66. During
his career, Mr. Trainor had been associated with Mount Wachusett Community
College (MWCC), Gardner, Mass., for
39 years, serving as a professor of psychology, dean of student affairs and, at
the time of his retirement in 2008, vice
president for academic affairs. The recipient of MWCC’s Summit Award in 2002,
he was awarded an honorary degree during 2008 commencement exercises; the
college also established the Peter J.
Trainor Leadership Award in his honor.
Affiliated with Henry Heywood Hospital
in Gardner, Mass., Mr. Trainor had maintained a private practice in marital and
family counseling at the Winchendon
(Mass.) Health Center; provided counseling services to local nursing homes for
more than 30 years—and had been a
member of advisory boards for nonprofit
social service agencies in Central Massachusetts. In addition to his professional
responsibilities, he had been involved in
youth and high school sports programs in
Massachusetts for many years—refereeing
or umpiring football, basketball, baseball
and softball games; serving as commissioner of the Mid-Wach Boys’ Basketball
League and chief umpire for Leominster
Babe Ruth; and officiating in numerous
District E and state championship tournaments. In 2005, the Massachusetts
High School Basketball Coaches Association honored Mr. Trainor with its Presidential Award for service to basketball;
in 2009, the International Association of
Approved Basketball Officials (IAABO)
Board 208 recognized him for his contributions to the sport and other referees. A
parishioner of St. Leo’s Church in
Leominster, Mr. Trainor had served on
the advisory board of its elementary
school. He is survived by his wife,
Colleen; three sons, including David P.
’90; a daughter; a son-in-law; three
daughters-in-law; a sister; three brothersin-law; four sisters-in-law; 10 grandchildren; and several nephews and nieces.
ROBERT H. WILLIAMS
Robert Williams, of North Falmouth,
Mass., died Sept. 11, 2009, at 67. Employed in both the private and public
sector during his career, Mr. Williams
most recently served as the president and
chief executive officer of the Better Business Bureau for Eastern Massachusetts,
Maine and Vermont; previously, he had
held the posts of chief of staff and deputy
secretary of state for the commonwealth
of Massachusetts. In addition, Mr.
Williams had worked in sales for the
Shell Oil Company—and had been selfemployed. A Marine Corps captain during the Vietnam War, he was the
recipient of several medals, including the
Purple Heart and Bronze Star. Mr.
Williams had been a member of the varsity football team at Holy Cross. He is
survived by his wife, Susan; two sons; two
daughters-in-law; and three grandchildren.
1966
JOHN J. BLASE JR.
John Blase, of Huntington Woods,
Mich., died Oct. 26, 2009, at 66. During
his career, Mr. Blase had been a neuropsychologist in private practice; he was
a past president of the American Board
of Professional Neuropsychology. Mr.
Blase had been an avid cyclist and golfer.
A veteran, he had served in the U.S. Air
Force. Mr. Blase had been a Holy Cross
class agent. He is survived by his wife,
Rosemary; two sons; a daughter; a son-inlaw; a daughter-in-law; his mother; a
brother; two sisters; a brother-in-law; a
sister-in-law; a grandson; and nephews
and nieces. His father was the late
Nicholas R. ’38.
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RAYMOND M. NISBY, D.D.S.
Raymond Nisby, D.D.S., died Oct. 4,
2009, at his home in West Bridgewater,
Mass., at 63. During his career, Dr. Nisby
had maintained a dental practice for 30
years in New Bedford, Mass. A longtime
resident of Lakeville, Mass., he had
served on the Lakeville School Committee from 1985 to 1988—and, from 1987
to 1994, on the Freetown/Lakeville Regional School Committee, holding the
post of chair, from 1991 to 1992. Dr.
Nisby had been a member of several pro-
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fessional organizations; his interests included boating and woodworking. Dr.
Nisby is survived by his wife, Eileen; his
mother; a son; two daughters, including
Ann Nisby Civitareale ’95; two brothers;
a sister; two grandchildren; aunts; uncles;
and nieces.
1971
JAMES A. FORTUNE
James Fortune died Oct. 16, 2009, at 60.
Prior to his retirement, Mr. Fortune had
been a tax auditor with the New York
State Department of Taxation and Finance. An avid reader, he had been involved in local library committees. Mr.
Fortune had been a Holy Cross class
agent. He is survived by his wife, Ellen; a
son; a daughter; a daughter-in-law; two
brothers; a brother-in-law; a sister-in-law;
a nephew; two nieces; and a cousin.
1972
JAMES S. REYNOLDS
James Reynolds died Sept. 18, 2009, at
his home in Chalfont, Pa., at 59. During
his career, Mr. Reynolds had been a senior accountant for 20 years with Scott
Specialty Gases in Plumsteadville, Pa. He
is survived by his wife, Amber; a daughter; two brothers; two sisters; a brotherin-law; and two sisters-in-law.
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PHILIP E. ADAMS
Philip “Ben” Adams died Oct. 26, 2009,
in Brigham and Women’s Hospital,
Boston, at 50. During his career, Mr.
Adams had most recently served 13 years
as a vice president at Fidelity Investments in personal and workplace investing technology; previously, he had been
an information technology professional
for many years at the Paul Revere Life
Insurance Co. in Worcester. Mr. Adams
was also a board director at UniBank in
Northbridge, Mass. He had been a member of the President’s Council at Holy
Cross and a Holy Cross class agent. Mr.
Adams is survived by his wife, Pamela; a
daughter; his mother; four brothers; three
sisters; a brother-in-law; two sisters-inlaw; and many nephews and nieces.
SUSAN E. O’KEEFE
FRIENDS:
Susan O’Keefe died Nov. 26, 2009, in St.
Vincent Hospital, Worcester, at 50. During her career, Mrs. O’Keefe had worked
for the Liberty Mutual and Great West
insurance companies. She is survived by
her husband, Paul E. ’80; a son; her
mother; three sisters; eight brothers-inlaw, including Cmdr. Leon M. Henry,
USN, ’77, John F. O’Keefe Jr. ’79, James
R. O’Keefe ’83 and Matthew T. O’Keefe
’86; five sisters-in-law, including Jeanne
O’Keefe Henry ’77, Carolyn (O’Keefe)
Duncan ’78 and Jane E. O’Keefe ’86; and
29 nephews and nieces. Her father-in-law
was the late John F. ’51, former treasurer
of Holy Cross.
Lawrence A. Burke, S.J., Hon. ’89, archbishop emeritus, Kingston, Jamaica;
Everett F. Carr, father of Everett G., information technology services; Gordon
Cherry Jr., father of Kathleen, Hogan
dining services; Jayne Fox, former editor,
College Web Communications, Office of
Public Affairs, and mother of Matthew
K. ’10; Eugene F. Fredey, D.M.D., father
of Eugene ’93 and mother-in-law of
Maura (Kelly) ’94; Edward Warrington
Hudlin, former visiting professor, philosophy department; Sister M. Joel (Helen
Gertrude Pax), C.S.C., sister of Clyde
Pax, professor emeritus, philosophy, and
aunt of Mary Pax Lenney ’78, Paul H.
Pax ’80, Margaret A. ’81 and Ann F. ’84;
Olive (Gallagher) Leary, mother of Carol
M. Glasheen ’85 and mother-in-law of
Jeremiah A. “Chip” O’Connor Jr. ’83, director, Holy Cross Conference Services
and Hogan Campus Center; A. Jeanne
Lipsitz, mother of Neal, disability services; Gerard Magri, brother of Julie M.,
M.D., ’85; William L. Maher, father of
Maureen T. LaPiana ’78 and Gregory G.
Maher ’83; Barbara A. Malia, mother of
Scott, theatre department; Andrew J.
McElaney, father of Andrew J. Jr. ’67 and
grandfather of Christine Linz Macomber,
M.D., ’90, Kathleen A. ’02 and Michael
J. ’02; John McShane, brother of Rev.
Joseph M., S.J., former Holy Cross
Trustee; Rev. Joseph A. Novak, S.J., former Holy Cross Trustee; Lorraine M. Parenteau, wife of Paul, former men’s head
swim coach, and mother of Barry, aquatic
director/men’s and women’s head coach;
Robert J. Plante, husband of Margaret T.
“Peggy,” retired, Dean’s Office, and father
of Robert J. “Bob,” post office; Jean F.
Swift, mother of Holly Hunt, audio-visual
services; James J. Tosney, brother of
Eileen M., retired, Office of the Registrar; Richard K. Watson, father of Richard
K. Jr. ’80 and grandfather of Connor D.
’12; Capt. Matthew Wright, father of
Matthew, physical plant/building services
1986
JAMES J. SABOURIN
James Sabourin, of Hudson, Mass., died
Oct. 15, 2009, at 45. During his career,
Mr. Sabourin had most recently worked
in The Heller School for Social Policy
and Management at Brandeis University,
Waltham, Mass., serving as the director
of international admissions and recruitment for the graduate programs in Sustainable International Development
(SID). Previously, he had been a program
officer at the African-American Institute
in New York City. Following graduation
from Holy Cross, Mr. Sabourin taught
mathematics in Koula-Mouta, Gabon,
Africa, with the Peace Corps. He had
also been an international election observer in countries where there is political unrest. Mr. Sabourin is survived by
his friend, Joaquim Drummond; his parents; his grandmother; two brothers; a
sister; a brother-in-law; two sisters-in-law,
including Ann Kelly ’89; six nephews;
and seven nieces.
ERRATA:
In the obituary for Linda M. Salters ’96
that appeared in the winter ’10 issue of
HCM, it was incorrectly noted that Ms.
Salters’ survivors include her late mother,
Ruth (O’Donnell) Salters. Family of
Nicholas A. Sordi ’43, whose obituary
also appeared in the winter issue, recently informed HCM that two of the
late Mr. Sordi’s grandchildren are Holy
Cross graduates: David J. Harper Jr. ’91
and Mark E. Baron ’94. HCM sincerely
regrets these errors.
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R oad Signs
Green Team
Quietly building a bond with the Regional Environmental Council of Central
Massachusetts, Holy Cross plants seeds of hope in the community.
B Y
C A T H E R I N E
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R O B E R T S
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Catherine A. Roberts, chair of the mathematics and computer
science department and past director of the College’s
Environmental Studies Program, “went green” before most of us
knew a carbon footprint from a greenhouse gas. A passionate supporter of efforts to care for the Blackstone River, Roberts has been
in the trenches, witnessing Holy Cross’ commitment to community partnership and helping our Earth. Here, she illuminates the
multifaceted relationship between Holy Cross and the Regional
Environmental Council in Worcester.
The Regional Environmental Council of Central
Massachusetts (REC) is a “grassroots, nonprofit organization
dedicated to building healthy, sustainable and equitable communities in Worcester for over 35 years.” When I joined the
College in 2001, I sought to partner my new Environmental
Mathematics course with local organizations, including the
REC, the EcoTarium museum and the Mass Audubon
Society. Student projects in this community-based learning
course were mutually beneficial: The students experienced
firsthand the impact of these groups on environmental issues
in Worcester, and the project deliverables aided these organizations in their efforts. Acting as consultants-in-training,
students engaged in quantitative analysis under the direction
of agency staff with oversight from me as their instructor.
One of the most fruitful partnerships has been, and continues
to be, with the REC.
For a number of years, the REC has invited the Holy
Cross community to participate on its board of directors.
Katherine Robertson (Office of the President), Alice Laffey
(religious studies) and I have each served on the REC board
in recent years. The executive directors of the REC (formerly
Peggy Middaugh and now Steve Fischer) have a remarkable
ability to articulate suitable project ideas. In addition to contributing to the mission of the REC, these projects provide
rich opportunities for our students to develop their interpersonal, quantitative and communication skills. It’s a win-win
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Catherine A. Roberts, chair of the mathematics and computer
science department, is the past director of the College’s
Environmental Studies Program.
ROAD SIGNS
scenario! For instance, students in my class researched wind
energy for the REC to help them advise the city on establishing policies for wind turbines. These students also made a
presentation to Fr. McFarland that initiated the College’s
exploration to possibly bring a wind turbine to campus.
Another student project involved a quantitative analysis of
urban asthma rates that resulted in informative news stories
on local radio and TV stations. Students also surveyed
College Hill residents to inventory mercury in the home,
which allowed Holy Cross to contribute to the REC’s education efforts on mercury awareness.
The College has been a longtime major sponsor of
Worcester’s annual Earth Day cleanup, which is managed by
the REC. Oftentimes students and faculty adopt sites near
campus to clean up. I’ll never forget the trash, including tires
and shopping carts, that we pulled out of the Middle River,
across McKeon Road. (The Middle River is the main headwater to the Blackstone River, which has been designated by
the National Park Service as the “birthplace of the American
Industrial Revolution.” The College has been instrumental
in keeping the headwaters clean and has involved students in
the Blackstone River Coalition’s water-quality monitoring
project.) For a number of years, Holy Cross students have
served as volunteer or work-study interns at the REC to help
organize and run the city-wide Earth Day cleanup program.
Seedlings cared for in Holy Cross greenhouses, like this
three-week old Blackjack lettuce, provide the start-up
plants needed for the REC’s community garden programs. These, in turn, provide organic food for families in need.
“[REC] projects provide rich opportunities
for our students.” —Catherine A. Roberts
Some of my recent students collected and classified litter in
three city neighborhoods throughout the semester. Their
report, which analyzed the type of trash collected, was used
by the REC in its efforts with the Worcester City Council to
design effective approaches to minimize litter in the city.
One of the most exciting developments in our relationship with the REC is the community garden program, including UGROW and YouthGROW. UGROW converts
undeveloped lots into organic garden space for use by neighborhood residents. The YouthGROW summer program
employs dozens of youth workers who maintain an inner-city
farm and learn community-building skills. The YouthGROW
farm raises over 2,000 pounds of organic fruits and vegetables
each year, which are donated to food pantries and families in
need. For years, the REC contracted with a local farmer to
purchase the seedlings for these two initiatives, but 2010 will
mark the fourth year that the seedlings are instead being
grown right on the Holy Cross campus. The greenhouses in
the department of biology have been made available to the
REC each spring semester, along with two work-study students who assist the REC staff with growing thousands of
seedlings for distribution throughout Worcester.
Each fall, the College hosts the REC’s annual fundraiser,
known as the Slow Food Gala. This highly successful event
benefits the garden programs. Marty Dudek, assistant director
of dining services at Holy Cross, prepares the meal entirely
from local, organic sources. In fact, all the ingredients for the
meal come from within 100 miles of campus. Some of the
vegetables on the menu are grown in Worcester at the
YouthGROW farm. In 2009, Holy Cross started its own
organic garden, and a number of people are working to help
establish this garden for future seasons.
The wide array of projects supporting the work of the
Regional Environmental Council reflects the College’s commitment to the city of Worcester. Each of these initiatives
improves the environmental health of our community. I am
blessed to be a part of such a meaningful articulation of the
College’s mission.
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T he Profile
Molly Taylor Jolly ’88
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Q& A
What is your favorite sports
movie?
Rocky, because it shows someone’s passion and perseverance
to achieve something that no
one thought was possible.
What is your motto?
I have two. “Everyone has talent
and something positive to contribute,” because I have a cando attitude. And “There’s no
crying in baseball!” Although I
almost did break into tears [in
2007] when we lost to Boston in
the American League Division
Series on a failed suicide
squeeze play. Moments before
that, my husband and I thought
we were going to win.
You were a cheerleader at Holy
Cross. What was your favorite
sport to cheer?
Basketball, because of the fast
pace of the game. But I also
liked football, because tailgating was fun.
Have you ever taken batting
practice?
Nope. (Sigh.) At one of our
homestands, I brought a friend
who was a former baseball
player down for batting practice. As I watched him hit some
balls, I thought, “Hey, I’d like to
do this, too!” But no one asked
me. We do have employee softball teams though, and we get
to play our games on the field.
Some ballplayers have superstitions. Do you have any superstitions?
As long as I have my calculator
and some batteries, I’m good.
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There’s no glass ceiling in baseball, says Molly
Taylor Jolly ’88, vice president of finance and
administration for the Los Angeles Angels of
Anaheim, and one of the highest-ranking
women in the Major Leagues.
“There’s plenty of opportunity here,” she
says with a smile. “I saw more ‘female vs. male’
stuff when I was starting my career in the oil
industry, which is a lot more male-dominated
than the sports industry.”
After receiving her degree in economics/accounting from Holy Cross, Molly Taylor
joined the Atlantic Richfield Company
(ARCO) and spent six years in Anchorage,
Alaska, as an inventory accountant and
financial analyst. The position put her in
close contact with one of her great loves,
nature. Anchorage is a 15-minute drive to
snow-capped mountains for skiing and an
hour’s hike to thousands-year-old glaciers.
And, serving as the volunteer treasurer of
the nonprofit Anchorage Women’s Hockey
League, she connected to another love: sports
management.
After transferring to ARCO Corporate in
Los Angeles, she earned her master’s degree in
business administration from UCLA and zealously networked with people in sports. In
2000, an organization that owned both the
Angels and the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, a
National Hockey League team, hired her as
director of finance. Three years later, she was
promoted to her present position.
With the Angels, Jolly oversees a $120
million player payroll and other financial
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matters, including stadium maintenance,
human resources for more than 1,600 employees and purchasing the bobblehead dolls
given away to fans.
Jolly says her decision to attend Holy
Cross—which she credits to “divine inspiration and a local recruiter who loved HC”—
was a “huge help to my career.”
“I went there to learn business, but I
learned so much more,” she explains. “I
appreciate the way teachers made me challenge my thinking. By stressing a diversity of
disciplines, they taught me to be confident
and successful. So no matter what kind of
problem I face today, I know I can figure
something out.”
According to Jolly, the Hill also taught her
the importance of community activism and
helping others, which is why she is the projects director of the Junior League of Orange
County, a group that promotes volunteerism—and is dedicated to developing the
potential of women.
In addition, baseball introduced her to the
biggest love of her life: husband Burt Jolly, a
lifelong Angels fan whom she met in the
stands during a home game. They chatted all
night, and, as the game went into extra
innings, she felt her heart going, going, gone!
But surely she knew that marrying the fellow meant she’d be Molly Jolly?
“Everyone in our media department said,
‘You can never marry that man!’” she recalls,
laughing. “But all my friends love my name,
and love to shout loudly: ‘Hi, Molly Jolly!’”
S TAT S
● Birthplace:
Atlanta; raised in Naples, Fla.
● Residence: Anaheim Hills, Calif.
● Birthday: Sept. 2, 1966
● Family: Husband, Burt Jolly, and his daughters, Ainsley and Lauren Jolly. (Burt is the
principal of Premiere Engineering.)
Photo courtesy of the Los Angeles Angels
A Change for the Better
Diana Antul
Every department on campus is doing its part
to promote a greener Holy Cross. Library
Services created this dramatic display in 2008
to show how much paper was being wasted
each week in the computer labs, mostly from
users accidentally making multiple printouts of
large articles. The department paired with ITS
this spring to implement a new print management system that eliminates waste with a simple check-off system. Students can still make
printouts at no cost—a highly prized perk—
but they must release each job from the print
station, cutting back on unwanted printouts.
The solution is a double win: paper and
money are being saved.